Announcements
Save the Date!
November 14, 2024 at 6 pm.
We warmly invite you to our next online meeting on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at 6:00 PM CET (7:00 PM EET in some regions).
This session will focus on the topic of Women and Their Role in the Economy. To kick off the discussion, we’ll begin with a brief presentation on Women in the Labor Market. Following this, Tsveta Shenkova from Ruse will present insights from Claudia Goldin's Nobel Prize-winning research on the historical inequality in women's salaries.
Members from SI Danube will also share their perspectives on the current economic conditions faced by women in Germany, Bulgaria, and Romania. We highly encourage you to contribute your experiences as well.
Additionally, Maria Alexe from Bucharest will provide updates on the upcoming SI Danube meeting planned for the Danube Delta in autumn 2025. Other important announcements will also be shared.
We look forward to your participation!
Save the Date!
January 17, 2025 at 6 pm.
SI Sisters Working as Artists
We are pleased to invite you to a special meeting where our sisters who are artists will showcase their work. If there is an artist in your Club who would like to present her creations and engage in an exchange with other sisters, please reach out to us.

We look forward to celebrating and supporting the artistic talents within our community!
News about SI Danube
Meeting of SI Danube sisters in July 2024
Tsveta Shenkova from SI Ruse, Rodica Maciuca from SI Brasov, Maria Alexe, actual president of the Romanian SI Union and Ana Maria Juc from SI Edinet participated in the partner meeting and conference Strengthening Civil Society in the Danube Region for a joint Europe which was organized by ILEU e.V. and the international educational Networkt Danube-Neworkers and took place in the framework of the international Danube-Festival Ulm/Neu Ulm in July 2024. They had been invited to this international meeting by SI sister Carmen Stadelhofer, head of ILEU e.V. to presented their Clubs in the poster session and to take actively part in the workshops and the cultural events. One evening was dedicated to a very cordially meeting with sisters of SI Ulm-Donaustadt
https://donaufest.tastes-of-danube.eu/
SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL CLUB RUSE
10 YEARS OF INSPIRATION AND CONTRIBUTION
In June 2023 SI Ruse celebrated 10 years of activity. The tenth anniversary of the SI Club Ruse Charter took place from the 2nd to the 4th of June, 2023. The celebration included a welcome cocktail party, a feminist walk in the center of Ruse, followed by a boat trip on the Danube River, and a Gala dinner. On the third day, the Soroptimists visited
the Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo. This is one of the nine sites in Bulgaria included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
SI Ulm Donaustadt meets SI Ruse and SI Bregenz in Ulm
Because oft he Covid-19-Pandemic it’s quite a long time since we Soroptimist sisters from Danube countries meet each other in person.
This year some of us could meet each other in Ulm, Germany, at the International Danube Festival“ in the frame of the partner meeting of the educational network „Danube-Networkers“ which took place
July 7st to July 10th, 2022. The sisters of SI Ulm-Donaustadt had been very happy to meet a delegate from SI Ruse and delegates from SI Bregenz, and spent a good time exchanging news and having a lot of joy together. And they were very sorry that the two sisters from Brasov had been unable to come in the last moment because of flight strike. But everyone hopes that the contact between the members of SI Danube will be activated again in autumn, through online meetings but also through personal meetings.
International Danube Festival 2022 in Ulm
It’s been quite a time since we Soroptimist sisters from Danube countries met each other in person. Meanwhile, we kept contact by several virtual meetings.
This year we are looking forward to meeting each other in Ulm, Germany, at the „International Danube Festival“, planned to take place July 1st to July 10th, 2022.
Please note the date!
Sisters of SI Club Ulm-Donaustadt will be your hosts.
SI Danube supports Ukrainian refugees
The war in Ukraine continues to require and increase our help to the Ukrainian people. Our work is increasing as much as this unfortunate war is progressing.
Therefore, sisters from different SI Danube Clubs and other SI Clubs met virtually on 12th of May, 2022 to speak again about how is the situation in our countries concerning refugees, where they can give support, what is needed, what they can do.
Read the report HERE!
News about the single SI Clubs
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SI Ulm - Donaustadt supports refugees of the war in Ukraine since April 2022 on international and regional level
Support and networking inside of the Club are functioning impressively:
- - through
financial support and
material help for selected projects in Ukraine, Moldova, and Ulm organized by Soroptimist sisters in Ulm and the surrounding countries.
- - by hand on the support of activities for refugees in the Ulm region in the frame of ILEU e.V, where our Soroptimist sister Carmen Stadelhofer, president of ILEU e.V., started in March 2022 a big project, „Ukrainehilfe Ulm" (https://ukrainehilfe-ileu.de/). The Club gives, e.g., organizational help and food supply at the two monthly meetings "Locals meet refugees" in Teutonia; members respond to calls when ILEU is searching for objects (musical instruments, sewing machines, furniture, etc.).
- by creating contacts between professional activities of the Soroptimist sisters and ILEU (e.V., creative program for children in the Teutonia meeting by the creative Centre Kontiki, town tour for refugees)
- by arranging contacts between ILEU/Ukrainehilfe and companies in which Soroptimist sisters work, sponsors for big activities had been found for various activities for refugee families (e.g. free of cost trip and entry to Legoland for over 80 children with their mothers
- by creating contacts from ILEU/Ukrainehilfe with potential sponsors of activities ( e.g. Rotary Ulm-Neu Ulm, Volksbank Ulm-Biberach)
- by supporting public relations (through the mediation of a Soroptimist- sister, two relief campaigns could be carried out on SWR television and radio)
- by responding to calls for personal long-term help (two Soroptimists have taken in their family an underage refugee child living alone)
SI Ruse engages in supporting Ukrainian women
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine our club has joined efforts with the Red Cross in our town (Ruse). We have done the following activities:
- raised 500 Euro;
- supplied non-perishable food, tea, coffee and other goods (cell phone chargers), by request from the Red Cross for the two entry posts in Ruse – the Border post at the Danube bridge and the Central railway station;
- supplied bedding (sheets, pillows, pillowcases) for the Red Cross and the Crisis centre Caritas, where Ukrainian families are staying (for 20 people);
- provided clothing, towels, toys and shoes for 2 families from Ukraine, staying at the Crisis centre (5 children and 4 adults)
- volunteered at the two entry posts – 140 hours so far.
Read more about their work
HERE
SI Ulm-Donaustadt: orangefarbenes Zeichen gegen Gewalt an Frauen
"Orange the world: End Violence against Women Now"
Die Frauen aus dem Soroptimistenclub Ulm-Donaustadt setzen auf dem Kienlesbergbrücke in Ulm ein Zeichen gegen Gewalt an Frauen. (2021)
Siehe Presseartikel (Südwest Presse (Ulm), 21 Jul 2021)
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The women from the Soroptimist Club Ulm-Donaustadt set a sign against violence against women on the Kienlesberg Bridge in Ulm. (2021)
SI Brașov: orangefarbenes Zeichen gegen Gewalt an Frauen
"Orange the world: End Violence against Women Now"
The members of the SI Club Brasov have established an action plan, with several activities for the period 25 Nov - 10 Dec 2021:
- an official letter was sent to Brasov City Hall with the request to illuminate the City Hall building and the letters BRASOV on Mount Tampa in orange on November 25, 2021
- interviews for the local press and television
- three shop windows were decorated with orange products and with messages to end violence against women
- exhibition, with sale, paintings and icons on glass, organized by the our club at the Brasov county library; the founds raised were donated for the equipment of the shelter for women in Brasov
- a meeting, on December 7, 2021, at the Sport Hotel in Poiana Brasov, with presentations on violence against women.
- our members wore orange masks, took pictures with them and posted them on social networks together with messages about this movement
SI Ruse: orangefarbenes Zeichen gegen Gewalt an Frauen
"Orange the world: End Violence against Women Now"
The women from the Soroptimist Club Ruse, Bulgaria set a sign against violence against women.
RomanIA Soroptimista - 100 years of Soroptimism celebrated in a purely traditional style
The members of Soroptimist Brasov, Romania want to share their traditions related to one of the main and most important cultural treasures of Romania, the Romanian blouse IA. Everybody who is interested in Romanian culture and curious to get to know this cultural treasure is invited. The event will be held in English.
Date: June 24, 2021
Download the Presentation
HERE
SI Ulm-Donaustadt
SI Ulm-Donaustadt celebrates 100 years of Soroptimst International by a public action im October 2021 in Ulm.
SI Brasov attend two international workshops
Members of the SI Brasov participated in two international workshops organised by ILEU e.V. as part of the project DANECT. The workshops took place on the platform Zoom and had two different topics:
- November, 16th 2021 about Demographic Change & Migration, 17:30 -19:30 (German time)
- December, 7th 2021 about “Environment & Sustainability – taking little steps towards change”, 17:30 – 19:30 (German time)
Web: http://danect.eu/workshop-16-11-2021/
Website DANECT: http://danect.eu/