Help projects in Somalia and Turkey

Disaster Fund: Long-Term Aid for Victims in Need

The Disaster Fund, a collaboration with SIA, gives grants to projects which provide long-term relief to women and girls after disasters. In the past months famine in Somalia and earthquakes in Turkey have put the lives of many in danger, and have made women and girls in those regions particularly vulnerable. In response to these disasters, the SI/E Board has approved grants to projects benefitting internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia and earthquake victims in Turkey.

Helping Somali IDPs
In order to help IDPs who have fled the effects of drought in Somalia and whose access to food and water is below survival needs, the SI/E Board has decided to a grant funds to: a project initiated by SI Rolle in Switzerland which will aid women in IDP camps directly, and another earmarked for a proposed collaboration with “SOS Children’s Villages International” in the Mogadishu and Baidoa camps.

Two earthquakes hit eastern Turkey
As there are no SI clubs in the affected region outside the town of Varna, the SI/E Board has decided give a grant to a project which collaborates with another organisation that provides aid to women and girls in the affected area in order to realise a longer-term recovery project aimed at job training. They are currently working out the details and will also be given an SI/E grant.

Help us support projects in Somalia (drought and famine) and Turkey (earthquake) by donating to the SI/E Disaster Fund.

In the reference of your bank transfer, please stipulate which project you would like to support, such as ‘Somalia’ or ‘Turkey’, and clearly mention your club as follows: SI (+Club name)

For transfers from the Eurozone, please use the SI/E account at Crédit Agricole des Savoie, Saint Julien En Genevois, France (IBAN: FR76 1810 6000 3496 7040 0803 955, Swift code/BIC: AGRIFRPP881).
Donations from non-Eurozone countries should be sent to UBS, CH – 2001 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Account No. 290/IN105239.0 (IBAN: CH30 0029 0290 IN10 5239 0, Swift code/BIC: UBSWCHZH80A).

For additional information, please contact SI/E HQ at the following email address: siehq@soroptimisteurope.org