SI Garstang News
On Monday afternoon, 8th July, 3 members of Garstang Soroptimists visited Forton CE Primary School. We arrived laden with parcels, as we had arranged for 6 pupils at the school to help us with the packing of 10 backpacks to be donated to the Back Pack Project, part of the Mary’s Meals Charity.
We enjoyed working with the children, who helped to select the full list of items for each back pack, and label it up, ready to be sent to the Charity’s depot in Glasgow. From Glasgow, container loads of backpacks are sent out to Malawi, where each back pack enables a child whose family is unable to afford the basic equipment to attend primary school.
Forton School was selected to help us because a plea at Christmas, that if any children were receiving new back packs for Christmas, we could use their old back packs, appeared in the school newsletter and subsequently in the Courier, and resulted in the first of many generous donations to the project. We wanted to give the children the chance to help with completing the project which they had helped to start, way back in December.
As one of the children said, when they had finished packing, ‘So I’ve helped to change a child’s life today’.
AGM 2024 - Review of Work for the past year
Our AGM was as always, a wonderful event, and this year we also managed our customary meal beforehand. We took this opportunity to hold the welcoming/induction ceremonies for some of our new members which had have joined over the last 12 months. It’s always thrilling to formally welcome new members, hear a bit about them and then to light a candle of friendship for them.
We had all the usual official AGM requirements, hearing reports from the clubs’ officials and voting in our new leadership team for the coming year and of course, President Gail. The detailed report from our Programme Action Officers Jackie and Gail made for impressive reading - and if you want to see for yourself exactly how much we have achieved this year then the full Programme Action report is here.
Discussions took place around our charity for the new club year and the final choice was PIES - Partners in Education Swaziland.
Finally, we held our candle ceremony, which is a lovely tradition of the club, highlighting the work the officials do on behalf of the members and bringing the members together to acknowledge the hard work we do in the club and the organisation as a whole.
When | 08 July 2013 |
What | Backpack Project - Update 2 |
Where | Forton CE Primary School. |
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