Group photograph of GGRF graduates and board members on the annual Scholarship & Awards Fundraising Luncheon.
Photograph by Brianna Rohlehr Visuals LLC
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 neighborhood leaders.
The luncheon featured the commencement of the group’s Younger Ladies’s Management Academy (YWLA) members, who demonstrated excellence in management, educational 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 have been excited to carry collectively our neighborhood to acknowledge the achievements of our younger girls and honor those that have made a major influence. We imagine within the energy of position 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 along with her mother and father. For her, GGRF first began because the Guyanese Ladies Rock Weblog platform in 2012, which is a web-based platform created to have fun the accomplishments of Guyanese girls within the diaspora. In 2015, she based the Guyanese Ladies Rock Basis, Inc (GGRF), however didn’t formally launch the group’s packages till early 2018.
Scholarships on the luncheon have been awarded to 2 college-bound seniors, and funds have been raised for each the Younger Ladies’s Management Academy (YWLA-NY) and the Younger Ladies’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 girls with the celebrated “Ladies of Inspiration” Award for his or her important contributions to the neighborhood.
This 12 months’s honorees included Dr. Rosalind October, acknowledged for her distinctive contributions to the neighborhood and unwavering dedication to Guyanese arts and tradition, and four-time Guyanese Olympian Aliann Pompey, for her distinctive contributions to the sports activities neighborhood and dedication to empowering and galvanizing younger girls and ladies.
The occasion was stuffed with inspiration and neighborhood 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 gifted steel-pan musician who traveled from Guyana to carry out.
individuals can discover extra details about GGRF and its scholarships for younger girls at https://guyanesegirlsrock.org/scholarship-fund/.
These can discover extra details about YWLA at https://guyanesegirlsrock.org/young-women-leadership-academy/. They will discover extra details about YWLF right here: https://guyanesegirlsrock.org/ywlf-gy/.
Younger girls of Guyanese heritage and a minimum of 18 years outdated who’re desirous about volunteering with GGRF can discover extra info right here: https://guyanesegirlsrock.org/volunteer-for-us/.
To help the work of GGRF, those that have an interest can donate at https://guyanesegirlsrock.org/donation/.
