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The Guyanese Girls Rock Young Women Leadership Academy (YWLA) supports the development of young female leaders in the Guyanese community. Through a series of instructor-led lessons and workshops, young women and girls are given a unique opportunity to learn from and build trusting relationships with female professionals and mentors. This bi-weekly Saturday program focuses on 3 key areas: building identity, developing self-confidence, and learning leadership skills.
You MUST complete both forms below to be accepted into the program.
Deadline: December 20, 2024.
Download Flyer: YWLA 2025 Flyer
For more information regarding the program, please send email: ywla@guyanesegirlsrock.org or call 646-285-4661
During each session, YWLA participants engage in fun and energized discussions and classroom exercises facilitated by experienced mentors from various professional backgrounds. Mentor also help students to define individual goals and ways to achieve those goals.
Job Shadow:
Job Shadow offers students a unique opportunity to visit a professional work environment and gain insights into a particular career. We believe in the mutual benefits of pairing students with professional mentors as a positive step toward preparing them for the workforce.
Students participating in this program will get to identify and experience the skills needed for a potential job positions and learn about the requirements needed to earn that position
During these visits, we aim to broaden the girls’ horizons by exposing them to the working world of women in positions of leadership, ownership, and power. Students will have the opportunity to learn about different sectors and professions and engage in Q&A sessions with positive role models.
Through our Cultural Enrichment Program, students engage in education and activities related to arts and cultural related industries for through events, workshops, site-visits to the movies, museums, and plays, theatre.
Dining Etiquette Training
In partnership with industry professionals this life skills initiative aims to raise awareness and educate our young women in some of the following areas.
Participants will also have the opportunity to attend other youth-related activities and conferences with their peers.
The “Day In The Life of” Site Visits involves tours to corporation and businesses to promote career exploration. During these visits, we aim to broaden the girls’ horizons by exposing them to the working world of women in positions of leadership, ownership, and power. Students will have the opportunity to learn about different sectors and professions and engage in Q&A sessions with positive role models.
YWLA also provides participants with opportunities to attend events and conferences with their peers and opportunities to speak publicly.
