This picture shows the newly tiled floor of the Ann Hay Vocational Centre’s veranda. The tiling has also been installed inside the centre building. Most of the furniture for the Vocational Centre has been donated by a Slough Sikh charity. The building is for the Post 16 women to learn READ MORE
Category: Developments
Almost completed Women’s Workroom
The photograph shows the Ann Hay Women’s Vocational Centre nearing completion with its red, raised roof. On the left side of the Vocational Centre are the four Brenda Tumber Toilets. These toilets will be for Library visitors as well as the Centre users. They have ceramic toilet bowls and drain READ MORE
Building new toilets…
New Tumber toilets are being built . This involves digging of pits and then lining them with local bricks, using stronger British German cement, and is one of the most expensive parts of the process.
Women’s room being extended….
The Ann Hay Women’s Vocational Centre is being extended to include an office and store room as well as the workroom. The new building will have solar power, secure doors and a tiled floor. The ceiling of the new room will be higher to allow more air circulation READ MORE
SI Thames Valley club supports the Kori Women Development Project in Sierra Leone
Rose Moriba Simbo, Founder and Director of the the Kori Women Development Project and member of SI Thames Valley, Gill Curry, SI Thames Valley and Johanna Raffan, SI Thames Valley and Chair and Trustee of the Kori Development Project, share the story with us. Gill Curry explains: “The Kori Project READ MORE
The Sandy Raffan Memorial Library
Sandy was the late husband of Soroptimist International Thames Valley Club member Johanna Raffan who is also one of the trustees of the Kori Development project. Sandy helped to raise funds for Kori and was suddenly taken ill, subsequently falling in to a coma from which he never recovered. He READ MORE
SIGBI Programme Award Winner for 2013
Federation (SIGBI) Programme Action Awards were introduced in 2003 to honour the excellent work done by Clubs throughout our Federation. There is one award-winner per Programme Objective, plus an overall winner. KWDP were Overall winner for 2013 SIGBI Programme Awards