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Soroptimist International of Osaka（SIOsaka）was created in 1970 by a sponsor of Soroptimist International of Kyoto. During the last 50 years, we certified 9 original clubs in Osaka prefecture. Now 19　clubs, including offspring of those nine clubs and clubs founded by the offspring are all active in the area. We celebrated the 50th anniversary of our certification on June 2, 2020.We had planned to hold the 50th anniversary celebration and banquet on May12th. The celebration had been announced and preparation had been made, and we had a lot of registration from sister clubs. Unfortunately, we had to cancel this event because of an upsurge in coronavirus pandemic infections. We would like to thank the 527 people who attended the commemorative charity dinner concert held on December 20th of last year. We are very grateful for the success of the event. The banquet associated with this charity event was held on a smaller scale than originally planned, with attendance limited to members of SIOsaka. We made a 50th Anniversary donation to each of our support recipients and public facilities, including a fund in Osaka Prefecture ,social support bodies in the City of Osaka, and to an international medical organization.
Our 51th years has started, finding us facing this pandemic and considering how to deal with it. It is important for us to continue to work for the reforms required by the times we live in. We must cherish the circle of service created for the sake of their local communities by the club’s founders. Their task and ours is to continue to improve the lives of women and girls. However, we never lose site of the fact that we, ourselves, obtain a sense of fulfillment that is the result of our service to others.
We hope that each member will keep in mind the importance of this task, will learn from and cooperate with each other to overcome the problems faced by
women, and continue our important activities.
We ask for your understanding and cooperation with this ever-important project.
We would like thank all the medical staff who have been on the “front lines”　during the Covid crisis. We pray that this infectious disease will be brought under control as soon as possible and that peaceful everyday life will return　to us all.

2020
Keiko　Shinke
President of Soroptimist International
Osaka