With the contribution of Soroptimist clubs in Germany, Norway, Kuwait, Belgium, UK and France, in addition to the eighty Dutch clubs, the project has now raised over €345.000. Margit van Hoeve explains: “Funds have gone towards rucksacks for over 2500 children, and towards teacher’s incentives for over 10,000 teachers, many of whom have themselves fled…
For years now, Soroptimistclub Hoorn has been supporting the Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf in Sri Lanka. Dutch-born Tineke da Silva-Nijkamp founded the school in 1984. Since then she has helped many children with a hearing impairment, who otherwise would have been doomed to a life of slavery. Tineke and her Sri Lankan husband…
Some words on Syria by Désirée Bonis, currently National Coordinator for International Posts at the Dutch government, former ambassador to Syria: “Welcome to you all. We are here together for a great cause. We are here for the children of a great nation: Syria. I have lived and worked in its capital Damascus for three…
Teenage pregnancy is a widespread problem in Cameroon. One in every three girls become a mother before her 18th birthday. Apart from becoming mothers before their 18th birthday, social abandonment, exclusion from education and jobs prohibit these girls from establishing sufficient support for themselves and their children. Bleeker Foundation will present its first seminar about Teenage Motherhood…
In the morning of 30 November 2015, sociologist and author Fatima Mernissi (1940) died. She was one of Morocco’s icons of feminism. Fatima played an important role in many areas. She cast doubt on the anti-female Hadith (Islamic traditions on Mohammed’s actions and statements, recorded in a collection of books) and criticized the subordinate place…
Do you know what Soroptimism means exactly? Probably not. Therefore, it is time to change this as Soroptimist International is the most important female service club in the world. At present, the reason of our existence is still relevant. Soroptimism would never have come into being without times of war and oppression. The days it…
In October 2015, general practioner and our club member, Carine den Boer, ran her 9th marathon in order to collect money for the project ‘Lonely Children’ for White Orphans in Craiova, Romania. As a VU University teacher for future GPs, she participated in a project in Craiova where, among other things, they observed local GPs…
