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Educate, Empower and Enable Women to Achieve Their Goals

The Soroptimist mission is to educate, empower and enable women and girls. Therefore, in addition to the grants financed by the SIE Scholarship Funds, Unions and Clubs throughout the Federation award numerous scholarships and organise various mentoring programmes that empower women in their countries and communities to achieve their professional goals. Grants amounting to millions of euros are awarded every year to fund, among other things, vocational training, advanced degrees, studies abroad and specialised education.

Mentoring programmes take a number of different forms, but all serve the same purpose: to empower women in their careers. Some Unions and Clubs collaborate with other institutions in mentoring young women; others work with universities to create customised programmes for participants.

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Project in progress

Sample project When women meet, things happen…

The project was inspired by a passionate talk given at a meeting of Soroptimist Club Ikast: Dentist Marianne Øster spoke about her volunteer work at the Heri Mission Hospital near Lake Tanganyika in Western Tanzania. There is a desperate need for trained health professionals at the Heri Hospital, but education costs money and is thus […]

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Project in progress

Sample project Mentoring programme achieves tangible results

On a day-to-day level, she has given me valuable feedback, and continues to share her wealth of experience and know-how in dealing with workplace scenarios and challenges. These sessions keep me open-minded towards new career prospects and opportunities for growth that I might have otherwise missed. Most importantly, Hanane has encouraged me to finally begin trusting […]

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