SIFE Committee 09/10

Here are the new committee elected on Monday 16th March. The official handover is Monday 27th April 2009!

President: James Stewardson
Secretary: Suzanne Butcher
Finance Director: Bogdan Opris
Marketing Director: Fatma Makki/Sharan Bains
Sierra Leonne Project Leader: Emily Savage
Madagascar Project Leader: Marius Klimavicius
Consultancy Project Leader: Katie Green
Green and Clever Project Leader: Jack Stanbury
Education Project Leader: Jas Grewal
Oman Project Leader: Fatma Makki

Leadership Team Speeches

On Monday's SIFE meeting, the leadership team gave speaches about the roles and explained their roles to the members!

Here's Tom, SIFE Southampton's president




Priscilla Guercini: Madagascar project team leader


James Pipe: Green and Clever project team leader



James Stewardson: Sierra Leone Project team leader





Poojah Patel: WebSIFE Consultancy Project team leader

The Sierra Leone Project

This project is a partnership with a local charity called the Saint Georges Foundation. James Stewardson and his team have set up a clothing embroidery business, which supports a long-term project in Sierra Leone. The team aim to provide training in IT skills to children in the Saint Georges Foundation shelter for homeless children as well as a rice growing operation with small villages.

Our Microfinance Project in Madagascar

Our project leader - Priscilla Guercina and her team have set up a micro-lending scheme that aims to enable poor families in Madagascar to start up small businesses, such as a chicken farm. SIFE Southampton are organising the scheme, providing the initial investment and then providing support to these families. The long-term goal is to make the project self-sustaining so that we can move on to a new geographical area.

SIFE Southampton : The Committee!

First Team Social! Let's go Bowling!

Right after the group meeting, SIFE Southampton spent their first social Bowling!

SIFE Southampton

We have recently set up a SIFE team in Southampton. We need as many enthusiastic students, who are willing to put as much effort as they choose, to get involved. SIFE is the world's largest university-based non-profit organisation, spanning 1800 universities in 47 countries.If your interested in; developing your 'real life' skills, improving your CV, meeting business and charity leaders, making changes on a local and international scale, social enterprise, entrepreneurship, management consultancy, business, charity work or you JUST WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN SOMETHING WORTHWHILE then SIFE is for you!