Christmas Raffle
Our Christmas Raffle is ramping up! Contact us to purchase your ticket(s) today! Our last raffle like this sold out fast, and the baskets were huge!
Money raised will be directed to our Live Your Dream Awards.
Read more about the Live Your Dreams Award: https://silangleys.ca/programs-1
Congratulations Governor Roseanne!
Roseanne Ham was joined by friends and family to celebrate her installation as Governor of the Western Canada Region. Ordinarily the annual WCR Conference would have been attended by members from all across the region; however, when COVID-19 gives you lemons, you regroup and make lemonade! We were so happy to be able to celebrate with Governor Roseanne as she was installed along with the other members of her Region Board.
Women who serve as the primary wage earners for their families and seek financial assistance to continue their education or receive training can now apply for the Soroptimist Live Your Dream: Education and Training Awards for Women.
Applications are available online: https://bit.ly/LYDA-apply or by contacting SI Of the Langleys' Award Chair Diane at silangleys@soroptmiist.net.
The application deadline is November 15. Clubs present cash awards to their award recipient(s), who will then advance to the Soroptimist Western Canada Region level, where recipients could receive up to an additional $5,000. The program culminates with three finalist $10,000 awards.
Recipients can use the Live Your Dream Award to offset costs associated with their efforts to attain higher education or additional skills and training. This includes tuition, books, childcare, carfare, or any other education related expense.
The Live Your Dream Award provides over $2.8 million in cash awards to head-of-household women in need each year.
Since the program’s inception in 1972, more than $35 million has helped tens of thousands of women achieve their dreams of a better life for themselves and their families. A study conducted by The Fels Institute of Government, a research and consulting organization based at the University of Pennsylvania, confirmed the efficacy and impact of this program. It improves the recipients’ quality of life; builds their confidence; strengthens their self-determination and makes them want to, in turn, help others.
Helping women in this way has the demonstrated effect of leading to stronger communities, nations, and the world.
Soroptimist of the Langleys participate in Langley Gives
Langley Soroptimist appointed president of the international women’s group
Langley Soroptimist appointed president of the international women’s group
Shirley Ann King (left) and Helene Causton with the Soroptimist of the Langleys stood out in McDonald’s drive thru during the cold Friday morning asking for donations to help send a local girl to summer camp as part of Langley Gives. (Joti Grewal/Langley Advance Times)
Langley Soroptimist appointed president of the international women’s group
Langley Soroptimist appointed president of the international women’s group
Langley Soroptimist appointed president of the international women’s group
From thousands of kilometres away, Soroptimists in the Langleys cheered on one of their own as Sharon Fisher becomes president of Soroptimist International at the organization’s annual convention gala held in Malaysia.
Candlelight vigil shines a light on domestic violence in Langley
Langley Soroptimist appointed president of the international women’s group
Candlelight vigil shines a light on domestic violence in Langley
Ishtar Transition Housing Society and Soroptimist International of the Langleys have been holding a candlelight vigil on Nov. 25 since 2005 to remind people that women face violence everywhere around the world. (Langley Advance Times files).
Cookies and ear savers gifted to Langley heroes
Same name, new cause for Langley’s Power of the Purse event
Candlelight vigil shines a light on domestic violence in Langley
Diana Wilk, principal of Douglas Park Community School said they have had been able to do this with some generous donations from our school staff, the Langley Soroptimists and The Douglas Park School Society to purchase the filament to produce the ear savers.
Same name, new cause for Langley’s Power of the Purse event
Same name, new cause for Langley’s Power of the Purse event
Same name, new cause for Langley’s Power of the Purse event
Laurie Parsons, executive director of Ishtar, is excited a new community fundraiser helps bring awareness and funding to school-based programs intended to educate kids about domestic and sexual violence.
Langley single mom given aid to achieve what’s in her heart
Same name, new cause for Langley’s Power of the Purse event
Same name, new cause for Langley’s Power of the Purse event
Sheryl Mathieson (left), Jennifer Robinson (back) and Jayme Tauber are all single mothers in Langley. They received grants from the Langley Soroptimists Thursday that will help them pursue their goal of post-secondary education – which is intended to help these parents to better care for their families. (Roxanne Hooper/Langley Advance Times).