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The Club

What is SWC? - "SWC - connects women"

The Sharm Women's Club (SWC) was founded in 2000 and is an open forum for women living in Sharm el Sheikh on the southern tip of the pennisula Sinai in Egypt. It doesn't matter which nationality you are, as long as you speak and understand English, and are a woman, (of course), you are more than welcome to join in.

Meetings
History
Mailing service
About us

Meetings

Since the beginning, we have set the first Monday of the month as standard for our meetings this is to make it a little easier for you to mark it in your calendar and to organise your husband for the babysitting. Normally, we stick to this. Besides the announcement on the website (click: next dinner), a few days before each meeting you'll get an e-mail invitation giving you all the details of where we're meeting and what kind of meeting it will be. Usually registration is not required (except for special events like Christmas or Birthday Meetings), but we appreciate a short "yes" by mail, which is not binding, but helps us and our hosting restaurant to organize the evening.

Lately, we've had again "monthly presentations" of different people talking about their hobbies, passions etc. To keep this up the initiative has to come form your side! Therefore, if you have anything of interest to tell or you know somebody to bring along, just let us know beforehand!

Alternatively we have 'chat meetings', which means an open exchange of information, members presentations, (time permitting). All meetings are followed by dinner (for those who can stay on), during which you have plenty of time to get to know each other better.

So do not forget to mark the next first Monday of the month in your calender... always at 19:30. See you... More about the next meeting: click here

History

by Bea Fankhauser
In May 2000 we had our first meeting in Ghazala Gardens Hotel, but the idea to set up such a group had been growing for a long time in my mind.

Being a networker by nature, I couldn't quite get used to having to dig and zoom around for every little bit of information about my chosen place of residence.I had arrived in Sharm in 1997 - shopping was a quite different matter then compared to what it's like today, (talk to someone who's been in town a while... there are plenty of funny stories to tell) - and whenever I discovered something or got a hint from a friend, I kept wanting to spread the news and inform people on a larger scale, to hopefully make their life a little easier too.
When the next piece of news reached me, about women feeling lonely in Sharm, I talked my idea over with a friend and asked for her help in setting up SWC. That's exactly what we did!
A lot of things have changed and SWC is going stronger than ever, but never forget: it's only as good as you make it!
The Future Sharm Women's Club would like to become legal in order to offer more services for women. The goal would be (let's dream a bit) to have our own center, meeting point for newcomers and "old" Sharmers.

Our mail services

The regular Sharm Women's Club mailings are a major part of the SWC networking system besides the monthly meetings.

Until now our SWC Mailings are neither a club magazine nor a newsletter, but a simple information tool: Everybody can send her/his personal classified ads - For Sale, Wanted, New Opening, etc - or questions or something she/he wants to inform other Sharmers about. And, as "SWC intern", information about club activities or specials are sent. Doro, taking care of the mailings since 2003, sends every few days the SWC Ads by collected mail to more than 450 subscribers.

If you have something to sell, or if you are searching for anything, if you have a question or an useful info for others, just send a mail to our information service. Please send as unformatted text mail only (we do not copy colors, different sizes etc), and without any attachments, pictures or logos! (We do NOT publish regular commercial advertisement. Commercial ads are sent only if of general interest for Sharmers, i.e. new openings, special offers etc...)

Please note that the ads you sent to SWC are not automatically posted to our web pages Pin Board, Job Market or Guest Book. If you want your entry to appear on the website, please enter your request yourself to the appropriate site.

If you want to receive our SWC mailings on a regular base please fill in form below.
We would like to emphasize again that you will receive only ads and not a newsletter. Also please take in consideration that we are sending quite a lot of mails - if you subscribe you will receive up to 30 SWC letters every month to your mail box.

About us

Bea - Origianally from Thurn, Switzerland, also lived in London, Geneva, Lugano und St. Petersburg. In Sharm since 1997. Bea is the founder of the SWC. Missing lots of things and as she describes herself being "a networker", the idea had been born.
The first meeting was in the year 2000.
Bea is married and has a baby girl born 1.12.03.

Sophie - Dutch born & raised, Swiss national from Geneva. She came with her family in 1997 to Sharm and joined the Club from its beginning in 2000. When Bea took a break from organising the meetings Sophie stepped in.
She is currently the heart of the club.

Doro - In 1993 Doro came to Sharm planning to stay for one year. But destiny made her stay.
Doro is with the Sharm Women's Club since 2000.
2003 she took the mailing list from Bea and keeps us informed since than.

Christiane - Since 1997 in Sharm, being in Egypt since 1993.
Christiane joined the club in 2000. She is one of the supporters of the legalization project, which is currently on hold. In 2004 Christiane created the website. Since then she is trying to keep it up to date and to improve it...

Jayne - First came to Egypt 20 years ago 1985 and has lived here since 1987.
She is married to an Egyptian she met in the UK and they had a liveaboard dive boat in Sharm for 8 years. She is an old Sharmer that is now a contributing member of the Sharm Women's club since December 2003.