New campaign to empower girls to become business leaders
Business & Professional Women (Valletta) Malta (BPW), on behalf of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW), the Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society (MFWS) and Women Political Leaders (WPL) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a collaborative agreement for the Girl2Leader Campaign 2021/2022.
The campaign will be based on The Charter of the Girls’ Rights, which will form a roadmap for a series of conferences each based on one of the series of nine articles all aimed towards the empowerment of girls to become business leaders in society, politics and the work environment. The campaign will be based on input for young girls from across the globe, as well as Young BPW Women (ages 18 to 35) and other organisations that work towards the empowerment of girls. The campaign will also involve Women of Influence who will become ambassadors for this campaign and who have survived situations as described in the nine Articles specified in the Charter and have become leaders in their domain.
A joint commission has been set up between BPW, MFWS and WPL to work on the development and implementation of this campaign.
The announcement of the launch was specifically scheduled on the UN’s International Day of the Girl, which falls on 11 October. To launch the campaign, President Emeritus, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, chair of MFWS, member of the Global Advisory Board of WPL and patron and Ambassador of Girl2Leader, together with Mariella Camilleri, president of BPW (Valletta) visited the Handaq Secondary School where they were received by the head, Michael Bondin. President Emeritus Coleiro Preca addressed the students present and together with Camilleri presented Girl2Leader bag packs, each containing copies of the Charter to all the students.