Carson City Soroptimist Introduces Hands-On Projects
Soroptimist International of Carson City welcomes members of the community to its lunch meeting Wednesday, March 22. The club meets from noon until 1 pm in the north room of Glen Eagles Restaurant.
Reservations are required, with an optional plated lunch available for $16. To reserve a seat, email silismiriam@gmail.com before Monday evening, March 20.
Sarah Walker, member of Soroptimist International of Greater Las Vegas, will talk about a couple of hands-on collaborative efforts by Soroptimist clubs in southern Nevada, providing information about what women in our area can do. Besides her Greater Las Vegas club membership, Walker is the Director for Soroptimist Sierra Nevada Region's District 6. Her District includes the four clubs in southern Nevada as well as northern Nevada clubs in Hawthorne, Yerington, Dayton, and Carson City.
Dress a Girl Around the World is a campaign to bring dignity to girls in need by giving each a dress handmade and delivered in person by volunteers. A girl wearing a new dress presents an appearance that she is well cared for and may discourage would-be predators. The Dress a Girl label attached to the outside of each dress sends an additional message that each girl is under the care of an organization, giving her added protection from those who would harm her, predators or traffickers. Dress designs are simple, and there are options for even non-sewers to get involved. For more information about this program, go to www.dressagirlaroundtheworld.com.
The other project, easy to replicate in northern Nevada, deals with recycling plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. The study, yet lightweight, mats are easy to carry, provide waterproof insulation from the cold ground, and are a useful alternative to the landfill for the ubiquitous bags.
Soroptimist International is a global volunteer organization working to improve the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment. The Carson City club provides education and training scholarships for local women, grant funding for local organizations, school backpacks for at-risk children, and breast cancer screenings for under-insured women through their September fundraising golf tournament, the Stroke to Help. For more information about Soroptimist in Carson City, go to www.sicarsoncity.org.
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