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Women s mentorship program launched plus Women s Race Day 2022 announced

WOMEN S MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME LAUNCHES IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

  With a continued focus from international organisations on promoting gender equality around the world, Antigua Sailing Week (A.S.W.) has worked with the Antigua and Barbuda Sailing Association (A.B.S.A) and the Antigua and Barbuda Marine Association (A.B.M.A.) to pioneer a mentorship program to encourage girls and women to consider the sport and business of sailing.     The programme’s objective is to develop pathways and generate opportunities for women in the sport and industry of sailing in Antigua and Barbuda.     President of Antigua Sailing Week, Alison Sly-Adams said, ‘When we devised the programme we looked at existing successful mentorship programmes worldwide and in particular the Magenta Project. The programme focuses on performance sailing and although eventually we would love to see more women in racing we decided that the Antigua and Barbuda programme needed to be broadened to include recreational sailing and additionally to invite women

Sailability Antigua Amazing for the Disabled in the Caribbean

ALL AT SEA Tags: Sailability 8 Min Read – Advertisement – When parents of challenged children at a local school in Antigua heard about a program to get their kids sailing, some were concerned. After all, even the most able-bodied, fully trained of mariners have met their fate on the sea. Yet, all it took was for one of the Parent-Teacher Association board members, a well-respected Caribbean sailor, to sign-up his daughter up for the newly launched program, and others followed suit. That happened in 2014 and today, Sailability Antigua, directed by Bob Bailey, serves nearly 90 participants each week, all of which are differently-abled.

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