Staff of Standard Chartered have engaged in a volunteering exercise with 100 feminine college students of Labone and Accra High Senior High Schools. The velocity mentoring session was a part of actions to mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science underneath the world theme “Women and Girls in Science Leadership, a New Era for Sustainability”,
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science was instituted by the United Nations to acknowledge the important position girls and women play in science and expertise. Standard Chartered is proud to have fun its achievements and create an enabling atmosphere for girls and woman scientists to thrive.
The volunteering exercise is in alignment with Futuremakers by Standard Chartered, the Bank’s world youth financial empowerment initiative to assist deprived younger individuals particularly girls and folks with disabilities to be taught, earn and develop
The spotlight of the session was a STEM competitors comprising 2 woman groups from Accra High School and Labone Secondary School with the “challenge” of delivering a digital answer to managing, monitoring and financial savings for youngsters. This is aimed to spark curiosity in STEM careers amongst younger women in senior highschoolsin Ghana. Labone Senior High School received the competitors and have been introduced with a Smart TV for the college’s ICT laboratory.