President Sabina Ali welcomed the Speaker Mridula Ramesh and the SI Sisters. It was a very interactive session, the importance of waste segregation was shown. Learned innovative ways to manage waste in our everyday life. Games were conducted to make us understand the topic better. Mridula Ramesh inspired us to manage our own waste. A delicious spread of continental food was served with lots of love with exotic dessert to complement the wonderful ambiance. Birthday sisters cut the cake.

The SI Madurai has won the best practice award under Environment Sustainability category for a project it did jointly with madurai municipal corporation earlier this year.
the project brought about a change in waste processing in a residential cluster of about 600 houses. located in the prime part of the city.

November meeting Hosted by Sudha, Chitra, Hema and Latha on Monday 19th November at 1 pm at Hotel GRT followed by lunch and Session to Eradicate Cancer.

The SI Madurai team visits St. Joseph Blind School, interacts with the staffs and students. These children were floored by the sheer energies, positivity, and willingness to learn. The experience of interacting and knowing the way they learn their subjects by Braille and just being with the visually impaired children was the moments to cherish for all the times to come.
The October meeting was hosted by Lakshmi aunty, Uma Kannan, and Dr. Lakshmi on 31st October, Wednesday at Puppy’s Kochadai at 1:45 pm followed by high tea for the students of St. Josephs Blind School.

Every child deserves a strong start – the best chance for a successful future. But too many children right here . and around the world aren’t getting the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Uma Devi a visually impaired girl receives Rs.5500/- scholarship to further B.Ed study sponsored by our member Priyadarshini

Charter day celebration and scholarships given to deserving candidate.

R Rajkumari of M S Chellamuthu Trust is this year’s recipient of Soroptimist-Madurai woman achiever award

Packed with a series of ongoing and new projects for the year, the Soroptimist International (Madurai) made its way into the eighth charter year this week. The occasion was celebrated with the presentation of the SI Woman of the Year Award to the Executive Director of M S Chellamuthu Trust & Research Foundation, R Rajkumari.

Having spent 25 years in providing psychiatric assistance to people with mental health problems, Rajkumari in her acceptance speech, lamented the prevalent barriers to seeking treatment and appealed to all to never give up on someone with mental illness. “When ‘I’ is replaced with ‘we’, illness becomes wellness,” she said.

As it is a drought prone area at the community college Uslampatti has to buy water every week . Since there are more girls enrolling for their studies here and awareness programs conducted for the villager on and off, the current tank is insufficient . If 2000 litter capacity tank the water will be sufficient for the girls studying there.
With current SI focus on women, water and leadership, SI Madurai has raised funds for 2000 litter capacity tank worth 12000/- Rs. to the community college of Uslampatti.

We believe that ensuring quality education for all is not only central to the achievement of all of the Global Goals but in particular the goal to end poverty.

Education reduces poverty
* Absolute poverty could be reduced by 30% from learning improvements outlined by the Education Commission.

2. Education increases individual earnings
* Education increases earnings by roughly 10% per each additional year of schooling.

3. Education reduces economic inequalities
If workers from poor and rich backgrounds received the same education, disparity between the two in working poverty could decrease by 39%.

4. Education promotes economic growth
In 2050, GDP per capita in low-income countries would be almost 70% lower than it would be if all children were learning.

5. Education helps save the planet
* The creation of green industries will rely on high-skilled, educated workers.

Better Skills Brighter Future is to prepare girls to face biggest challenges of life, to increase women’s leadership, to enhance economic empowerment, to end violence against women and ensure no one is left behind.