GGRF’s Younger Girls’s Management Academy (YWLA) graduates of 2024, with present GGRF board members.
Picture by Brianna Rohlehr
The Guyanese Ladies Rock Basis (GGRF) held its annual Scholarship & Awards Fundraising Luncheon on Saturday, July 13, 2024, at Leonard’s Palazzo, positioned at 555 Northern Blvd, Nice Neck, New York.
This extremely anticipated occasion, hosted by Guyanese journalist, Tracey Khan, celebrated the exceptional achievements of highschool ladies of Guyanese descent and honored distinctive group leaders.
The luncheon featured the commencement of the group’s Younger Girls’s Management Academy (YWLA) contributors, who demonstrated excellence in management, tutorial achievement, and private improvement.
“Our annual luncheon is a celebration of excellence, management, and empowerment,” mentioned Cloyette Harris-Stoute, Founder and President of GGRF. “We had been excited to carry collectively our group to acknowledge the achievements of our younger ladies and honor those that have made a big influence. We imagine within the energy of function fashions and the significance of supporting the following technology of feminine leaders.”
Harris-Stoute grew up in Goed Fortuin, on the West Financial institution of Demerara in Guyana the place she lived together with her mother and father. For her, GGRF first began because the Guyanese Ladies Rock Weblog platform in 2012, which is an internet platform created to have fun the accomplishments of Guyanese ladies within the diaspora. In 2015, she based the Guyanese Ladies Rock Basis, Inc (GGRF), however didn’t formally launch the group’s applications till early 2018.
Scholarships on the luncheon had been awarded to 2 college-bound seniors, and funds had been raised for each the Younger Girls’s Management Academy (YWLA-NY) and the Younger Girls’s Management Fund (YWLF-Guyana), which helps first-year feminine college students on the College of Guyana.
Along with celebrating younger leaders, GGRF honored two excellent ladies with the distinguished “Girls of Inspiration” Award for his or her vital contributions to the group.
This 12 months’s honorees included Dr. Rosalind October, acknowledged for her distinctive contributions to the group and unwavering dedication to Guyanese arts and tradition, and four-time Guyanese Olympian Aliann Pompey, for her distinctive contributions to the sports activities group and dedication to empowering and provoking younger ladies and ladies.
The occasion was stuffed with inspiration and group constructing, that includes a particular visitor speaker, Rhonda Binda, who addressed the viewers. Binda is the New York State Committeewoman for the Gracie Mansion Conservancy.
Attendees additionally loved a particular dance efficiency by members of Impressions Dance Theatre, Inc.
There was additionally a crowd-pleasing efficiency from GGRF’s YWLF 2023 Scholar, Naomi Roberts, a proficient steel-pan musician who traveled from Guyana to carry out.
folks can discover extra details about GGRF and its scholarships for younger ladies right here: https://guyanesegirlsrock.org/scholarship-fund/.
These can discover extra details about YWLA right here: https://guyanesegirlsrock.org/young-women-leadership-academy/. They’ll discover extra details about YWLF right here: https://guyanesegirlsrock.org/ywlf-gy/.
Younger ladies of Guyanese heritage and not less than 18 years previous who’re serious about volunteering with GGRF can discover extra info right here: https://guyanesegirlsrock.org/volunteer-for-us/.
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