What do more than 20 women professionals, including doctors, lawyers and managers, in bustling Bangalore have in common?
The Soroptimist International of Bangalore (SI Bangalore).
The Soroptimist International of Bangalore?
Yes. We are a group of women in management and the professions, working through social service projects to advance human rights and the status of women.
The name sounds like a mouthful.
Well, ‘Soroptimist’ traces its root from the Latin words ‘soror’ meaning ‘sister’ and optima meaning ‘best’, and loosely translates as "best for women".
Is it a global body?
Yes and no. We are the 13th club in India affiliated to a sisterhood of an international voluntary body called the Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI).
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The first Soroptimist club in was founded in Oakland, California, in 1921 by 80 passionate women. Little did they know that their club would swell into a family of more than 95,000 global sisters.
Which makes us the world's largest classified service organization for women.
We shoulder projects aligned to the SIGBI strategies. Focus areas include:
· Human Rights and the Status of Women
· Education
· Environment
· Economic and Social Development
· Health
Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland
127 Wellington Road South, Stockport, Cheshire SK1 3TS UK