Beenleigh Inc
Beenleigh Inc (13 members)
Chartered: 02 Jul 1988
| Meeting Time | 4th Tuesday 7.00pm |
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| Venue | Club Beenleigh, Alamein Street, Beenleigh Qld 4207 |
| Correspondence: | PO Box 518 BEENLEIGH QLD 4207 |
| Country | Australia |
| sibeenleigh@siswp.org | |
| https://www.facebook.com/sibeenleigh |
About Beenleigh Inc
22 October 2024, join Soroptimist International Beenleigh Inc, as we commence our 16 Days of Activism early, with the Freedom Breakfast.
Soroptimist International Beenleigh are proud and privileged to host The Freedom Breakfast with guest speaker Ruth Larwill (BA (Psychology), MA (Counselling), M.PACFA, M.ACA, M.CCAA ), co-founder of Bloom Asia, an organisation which reaches out to young girls who have been rescued from sex trafficking. Here is an amazing and inspirational story of a person with a passion to change the lives of these young girls and give them Freedom & Hope.
Ruth will be introduced by Multi Award winning local cake artist and inductee to Accada Lifetime Hall of Fame Trina Thomson who will share her time conducting a workshop with the girls in Cambodia and showing their amazing talent.
VENUE: Club Beenleigh, 28A Alamein Street, Beenleigh
DATE: 22 October, 2024
TIME: 6.30am – 8.30am (Breakfast served from 6.45am)
BOOKING: $40 per head
Book thru Humanitix https://events.humanitix.com/freedom-breakfast
This is an opportunity to support the work of this organisation and hear the story of how Bloom Asia provides a light for these children to take them from the darkness to a bright new world with healing through Education and Training. “To see a girl smile and understand that she was created for a purpose and with value is what Bloom Asia is all about.”
Book thru Humanitix https://events.humanitix.com/freedom-breakfast
Christmas Gift Giving 2024
This year Soroptimist International Beenleigh seek your help. This image is just some of the hampers delivered Christmas 2022
For over 20 years Soroptimist International Beenleigh have been providing food hampers at Christmas time to families, pensioners and seniors, single parents with families. These food hampers are valued and provide necessary food items at a time when budgets are stretched. The smiles on the people receiving these gifts show how much these are valued. As Soroptimist Beenleigh have been gifting food hampers over such a long time, many organisations and people know of this and this year the list of people requesting food hampers due to the rising cost of living has increased beyond what we as a organisation can provide via the funds we have raised during the year. If you can spare $20.00 it would mean feeding a family for several days.
Donate to assist with projects in Beenleigh
DONATE to assist us to provide life changing projects to women and girls in the Beenleigh district.
Can you Help - Target 10 School Supplies
Help us provide school supplies to enable a child to stay at school. Some families find it very challenging to to supply basic school supplies to their children. Literacy is hands-on – students need books, pencils, uniforms and computers to help with learning.
What We DO!
Target 10 - is a library bag containing essential school stationery supplies. Soroptimist International Beenleigh club will be donating Target 10 packs. A library bag complete with school stationery supplies to fire victims , at the minute we have our back to school Target 10 packs ready for the Beenleigh district by donating to the club thru the try booking link , you can make a difference. A Donation of $20.00 will provide one Target 10 pack.
Contact sibeenleigh@siswp.org for further details. or visit facebook sibeenleigh
End Domestic Violence Campaign
Purple Seat Campaign. Soroptimist International Beenleigh and Logan City Council, partnered to install a purple seat in the Beenleigh Town Square. This visual tribute will ensure that efforts to end domestic and family violence do not go unnoticed, and that people seeking support and solace can obtain the information they are needing, Soroptimist Beenleigh are continuing to advocate for more purple seats to continue the conversation and awarness to the challenges of Domestic Violence.
Latest News!
Two new purple seats have been located in public parks, one in Eagleby and the other on Carl Heck Blvd, Windaroo.
Projects
Help US! Provide Target 10 school stationary packs
Every child deserves to be able to start school with the necessary stationary requirements for their education.
This year more so than others, find families financially streseed, the challenge to supply basic school supplies to their children seems out of reach. Literacy is hands-on – students need books, pencils, uniforms and computers to help with learning.
What We DO!
Target 10 - is a library bag containing essential school stationery supplies. Soroptimist International Beenleigh club will be donating Target 10 packs. A library bag complete with school stationery supplies to fire victims , at the minute we have our back to school Target 10 packs ready for the Beenleigh district by donating to the club thru the try booking link , you can make a difference. A Donation of $20.00 will provide one Target 10 pack. This year our target is 500 packs of stationary.
Christmas Food Hampers drive
Each year since 1988 SI Beenleigh have been providing christmas food hampers, this year requests for food hampers have outstripped our allocation. this is YOUR opportunity to assist your community, we have created a donate page to enable us to provide these much extra food hampers to our community. COVID 19 and financial stress means that many families will go hungry lets help where we can. Donate now at https://www.trybooking.com/au/donate/sibfoodhampers This is just some of the 30 hampers we delivered last year. If you have food items you would like to donate contact sibeenleigh@siswp.org. Packing day is 16th of December
In 2021 SI Beenleigh were able to deliver 45 food hampers.
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Art Therapy Workshops
Domestic violence, specifically, that which is perpetrated against women and children, causes physical, mental, and emotional trauma, resulting in a variety of pervasive injuries and disorders. Art Therapy provides the children and mothers a way to work through their mental and emotional issue with a trained counsellor and aids in the healing process.
SI Beenligh provides the funding for several art therapy workshops throughout the year.
Personal Hygiene Packs,
SI Beenleigh provides personal hygiene packs to schools in the Beenleigh District, these hygiene packs enable female high school students to attend school with dignity. Disadvantaged students cannot afford menstrual pads or tampons and the provision of these items by members of Soroptimist International of Beenleigh provide the students with the knowledge they can concentrate on school and not on making excuses as to why they are not at school.
16 Days of Activism against gender violence
Soroptimist International Beenleigh works actively throughout the year on advocacy and projects to end gender based violence. SI Beenleighis a member of Not Now Not Ever in Logan community group.
Whilst the club organises a variety of projects and activities to assist domestic violence victims and their families. The major project is to work actively over the United Nations dedicated 16 Days of Activism against gender based violence. Look out for our facebook posts and other information on activism activities you can join with us. Encourage others to break their silence as we partner together to raise awareness, and importantly remember the victims and survivors of domestic violence.