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Soroptimist International
Club München-Schwabing
Club München - Schwabing
Founded in 1921 in Oakland/California, this globally active NGO (non-governmental organisation) with consultative status at the United Nations/UNESCO currently has around 70,000 members in 118 countries.
Our Club currently has 27 members. We meet every fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm. If necessary, our club evenings are also held online.
If you are interested in our activities, our club life or would like to become part of one of the largest worldwide women's organizations, please feel free to contact us.
SI Women's Prize 2024
Soroptimist Club Amberg awarded this year's SI Women's Prize to Marianne Gutwein, Chairwoman of the Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen (SkF) (Social Service of Catholic Women) Amberg for her many years of service to women and families. Under her chairmanship, the first women's shelter was opened for the town of Amberg and the district.
The ceremony was opened with a welcome address by President Heidi Heckmann of the SI Club Amberg, followed by a speech by our newly elected SID President Manuela Nitsche on the current goals of SI Germany.
Our club sister Monika Meier-Pojda gave the laudatory speech in her function as President of the Bavarian State Women's Council.
Dates and Times
As part of the Orange Days
Tuesday, November 26th 2024, 7 pm.
Heroes Munich: Boys and young men against violence towards women.
Tayfun Samli
Lecture
Registration is mandatory
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 at 7 pm
Christmas Party
Internal event
Sunday, January 12th, 2025 at 11am
New Year's meeting at Isabel's
Internal event
What topics are currently on our minds at the club?
Wine and sensuality
At the beginning of October, our President gave a guided tour of the exhibition 'Wine and Sensuality' in the Collection of Classical Antiquities. In ancient Greece, we encounter a culture of wine enjoyment that is unparalleled.
The exhibition deals with the tradition of these sensual experiences: the world of the wine god Dionysus and the symposium, the drinking session in convivial company.
Susanne showed us the most important facets of the theme in detail and very knowledgeably using various vases and bowls: music & song, dance, poetry, jokes & games and eroticism.
The crowning glory of the evening was our 'symposium' with Lebanese cuisine and good conversation.
Sisters, should prostitution have a prosperous future in Germany?
At one of our last club evenings, we heard a very convincing plea for the so-called "Nordic Model", which is used in Scandinavia to enforce the criminalisation of sex buyers, pimps and brothel operators.
Liane Bissinger and Dr. Inge Kleine from KOFRA (Communication Centre for Women in Work and Life) gave us an insight into the state of the discussion. Contrary to what is often claimed, the legislative changes of 2002 and 2017 have not improved the situation of prostitutes in Germany, on the contrary, they have massively worsened it and made Germany the brothel of Europe.
How should this now look in the future? Laws are legal norms: They determine how something has to be. The current legislation promotes prostitution and in particular leads to sex buyers being able to consider themselves law-abiding.
Feelings of shame due to deliberate violations of norms are either not built up in the first place (young clients) or greatly reduced by the lack of social sanctions and the assumption that they are 'only' using a completely legal service.
In addition, prostitution is a flourishing business in which everyone earns a lot of money, at the expense of the people who have to prostitute themselves and are usually suffering and traumatised. Is this really how it is supposed to go on??
Is this what we want or is it not time for a paradigm shift?
Soroptimist International
A global Voice for Women
01 Who are we?
SI unites women from all continents, cultures and professions to work to improve the lives of women and girls worldwide and to contribute to better global understanding.
It is the world's largest service organisation of professional women with a socio-political commitment.
The organisation therefore provides a global professional and social network through its members and through international partnerships.
Worldwide, SI is represented in 118 countries with around 70.000 members in 2.900 clubs.
Soroptimist International Germany (SID) currently consists of 224 clubs with over 6.700 members.
02 What do we do?
Soroptimists campaign worldwide at local, national and international level for the rights and improvement of the living conditions of women and girls.
They deal with issues concerning the legal, social and professional status of women and represent the position of women in public discussions.
More than 4,000 projects in Europe alone generate donations of around six million euros per year.
Around 1.5 million euros flow into social projects at home and abroad every year thanks to the voluntary commitment of Soroptimists in Germany.
Soroptimist International - Vision - Mission - Werte
01 Vision
women and girls:
- are able to realise their individual and collective potential and achieve the goals they set out to achieve
- are not subjected to physical or psychological violence
- have unhindered access to education
- can strive for economic independence without hindrance
- have unhindered access to health care and adequate nutrition
- Be heard as an equal voice in efforts to build a more just and peaceful world.
02 Mission
03 Values
and values:
- Human rights for everybody
- Gender equality
- Striving for global peace and international understanding
- Promoting the potential of women
- Promoting integrity and democratic decision-making
- Volunteering, diversity and friendship.
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