SI Helena – Friendship Link with SI Plovdiv from Bulgaria – April 2011

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Click here to read the Congratulations letter for SI Helena and SI Plovdiv (PDF).

We were thrilled to establish a new Friendship Link with Soroptimist International Plovdiv from Bulgaria. Our Plovdiv contact Dilyana Vitcheva has been corresponding with our member Naomi Allan and we received our certificate formalising the link on the day our our birthday party.
Soroptimist International Plovdiv is a very active club with some of their recent projects including:

• Providing 20 blankets to sick children at a Medical University
• Recontructing and renewing the Soroptimist VIP room at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Medical Univeristy
• Providing 4 fitness equipment for children with diabilities
• Reconstructed a fountain in the central park of Plovdiv to supply drinking water. This is only a part of their enormous project entitled “Water is LIfe” which is aiming to reconstruct 8 fountains for drinkable water in the city
• Friendship Links are a way for Soroptimist clubs to get to know other members in Soroptimist International from around the world and to build an appreciation and understanding of cultures very different from our own.

By exchanging communications and sharing information, clubs with Friendship Links have gained valuable information about the challenges facing women around the world. in many cases, these relationships have grown to support local Soroptimist projects that improve the lives of women and girls.

We are looking forward to getting to know our sisters from Plovdiv in the months ahead.