2011-2013
Soroptimists go for water and food

SIE President Kathy KaafIt is an honour and a joy for me to greet you at the beginning of my mandate.

The future is what has not yet been made. So let us shape it together. 90 years after the inauguration of our organisation in Oakland, California, our vision still remains the same.
The main principle of our service organisation is as strong and compelling as ever.
We are committed to human rights for all. We strive to reveal women’s potential worldwide:

We are a Global Voice for Women.

To be able to be that voice we have to be among the best informed women in the world today.
Let us have the courage to raise awareness on ‘hot issues’ such as: arms exports, the ‘clean clothes’ business, ethical investment, fair trade, market speculation with foodstuffs, ‘land grabbing’, trafficking, genital mutilation, anti-personal mines and cluster bombs.
The theme for the 2011 – 2013 biennium is:

“Soroptimist go for Water and Food”.

We will particularly celebrate this during the 20th SI/E Congress in 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

We will discuss starvation and malnutrition and we will assert why women should be enabled to play an active role within agricultural production and sustainability, to improve the livelihoods of their families and their community environments.
Main subjects are:

- Availability of safe water resources, cultivation and irrigation techniques,

- Increase in sustainable farm productivity, biodiversity, knowledge of climate change and its consequences, knowledge of home economy and farming techniques,

- Fishery, forestry, livestock breeding, cottage gardens, kindergarten and school gardens,

- Storage, preservation and distribution of foodstuffs,

- Strengthening the role of women in society by giving them increased access to education and income generating activities, availability of microcredit facilities, better policy frameworks.We will also highlight the opposite side of the spectrum by informing on overweight problems, obesity and its many implications. Main subjects are:

- Awareness of healthy eating concepts through developing education and skills programmes,

- Knowledge of sustainability in farm production and food,

- Raising awareness on the immorality of speculation with agricultural resources and land grabbing,

- Advocating cottage gardens, kindergarten and school gardens (garden in a basket),

- Providing a fairer global trading system and taxation regime to make small-scale farming profitable,

- Reducing food wastage, raising awareness of environmental issues and sustainability of resources.I look forward to discussing these issues with all of you and find practical projects for our SI/E Clubs to implement them which will be presented in our Soroptimist Project Matching Programme.At the heart of Soroptimist are our clubs. Without our club members there would be no Soroptimist Network. Without our members there would be no projects worldwide.

So let us shape the future together and let us truly be that ‘Gobal Voice for Women’.Best wishes,

SIE President  Kathy Kaaf

  
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Oversættelse sakset fra SIEs nyhedsbrev nr 1 2011/2012

Med den voksende verdensbefolkning, øget konkurrence om naturens ressourcer og øget opmærksomhed omkring miljøspørgsmål, er vand til landbruget blevet et stort problem, der skal løses. Der er behov for at udforske nye former for vand- og fødevareproduktion. Det er klart, at vand spiller en afgørende rolle for at opnå fødevaresikkerhed. Det er en udfordring at producere bedre fødevarekvalitet med mindre brug af vand. I betragtning af vigtigheden af dette emne, valgte SI/E præsident Kathy Kaaf temaet "Soroptimists go for Water and Food" for hendes toårige periode 2011-2013. Hun erklærede, at "vi ønsker ikke blot at henlede opmærksomheden på social uret og klager, men også til aktivt at forpligte os til at ændre dem." SI/E medlemmer opfordres til at iværksætte projekter inden for dette område. Resultaterne fra disse to år, vil derefter blive præsenteret på den 20. europæiske kongres for SI/E i Berlin, 12 til 14 juli 2013. Derudover forsøger SI/E at øge bevidstheden om den ulige fordeling af vand og fødevarer, fokus på landbrug med vægt på videnskabelige og teknologiske baserede løsninger, samt lokal og traditionel viden til at udvikle nye muligheder inden for landbrug, meget høj fødevaresikkerhed, samt fremme mere bæredygtige former for energi, og forsyne befolkningen i landdistrikterne med ressourcer og muligheder for at leve et sundt og produktivt liv. Vi opfordrer SI/E-medlemmer til at indlede og fortsætte vellykkede fælles projekter i partnerskab med SI klubber rundt om i verden samt med eksterne organisationer.