P.E.I. to spend over $243,000 on projects empowering Island women
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — P.E.I. is earmarking over $243,000 in grants to be shared between 11 organizations working to assist empower Island ladies and ladies.
The Interministerial Girls’s Secretariat Grant will likely be used to boost Island-based companies and packages which help consciousness, schooling and social motion on ladies’s authorized, well being, social and financial equality.
Receiving nearly all of the funds, Steam P.E.I. will see $30,000 to help their P.E.I. Women GET Math Program which promotes constructive math messaging for Island ladies and builds expertise by day by day actions.
Girls’s Community P.E.I. will get $26,730 to advertise ladies and gender-diverse Islanders as change makers by highlighting 40 years of neighborhood activism with a give attention to advocates who’re BIPOC, rural, residing with incapacity and 2SLGBTQIA+.
Expertise P.EI. will use its share of $25,000 in funding for his or her Expertise Future Program for Women undertaking, which goals to take away boundaries that will cease younger ladies from participating in provincial profession exploration, mentorship, important talent growth and extra.
Extra details about the grant could be discovered on-line at https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/data/education-and-lifelong-learning/interministerial-womens-secretariat-grant#utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=url&utm_campaign=IWSgrant.
