Partner With Us! Help encourage women and girls on International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Road Town, Tortola.

On Friday,11 February 2022, the Road Town Girl’s Brigade will join others around the world to observe the 7th Annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

How it Began

In the year 2015, the United Nations proclaimed that the 11th day of February of each year would be observed as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.[1] It was the aim of the United Nations that the day would remind all communities to do all they can to ensure full access to and participation in science for all women and girls.

Therefore, in celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the United Nations encourages community partners to join up and take actions towards achieving equality in science, technology, and innovation for socio-economic sustainable development in line with the UN Agenda 2030 and its SDGs.[2]

RTGB Access to Technology Project -11 February, 2022

Thus, on 27th January 2022, the RTGB launched a program to increase access to girls and woman to computers and computer-related skills.

Having completed in 2021 a website building project which was designed, completed and is being maintained by the girls and young women of the RTGB, and having moved to virtual, weekly Company meetings which requires digital participation in many activates, the lack of access of some girls and women to computers and the internet became obvious to the RTGB. This identified a need in our community which is in line with the aims of the United Nations and other organisations[3] for girls and women in science.

How Can You Help?

The RTGB now seeks community partners to provide a computer to a member of the RTGB who regularly attends the Organisation’s weekly virtual meetings, and/or who struggles to attend or struggles to fully participate in all the Organisation’s weekly virtual activates due to a lack of access to a computer or a properly working computer.

Therefore, persons or businesses which could donate a computer to such a member of the RTGB should contact email the RTGB at rtgb.bvi@gmail.com or call the Captain of the RTGB at phone 284-542-5021 on or before 10th February, 2022 so that donations can be made on Friday,11 February 2022, in observation of the 7th Annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Tokens of gratitude for participating in the project

While donor participation is priceless, especially to RTGB members who could not otherwise fully participate in technology, the RTGB pledges to list donor participants on its website as a 2022 Platinum Sponsor of the Girls’ Brigade. In addition, donor participants in the program would be able to place a congratulatory message and/or an advertisement for its business (supplied by the donor) on the place designated on the RTGB website for the entire year of 2022. Additionally, the eligible girl or woman who is matched with the donor participant will personally receive the device from the donor in a short handover ceremony which will be covered in a news story on the RTGB website and possibly on other media.

Open Invitation to all

If you are a person or business who can do so, please help the RTGB in its observation of the 7th Annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science, on Friday, February 11th 2022 by participating on the Access to Technology Project.

[1] The resolution was adapted by the UN General Assembly on 22 December 2015 (https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/212 ). [2] https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda [3] Other organisations such as these: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the International Telecommunication Union and other relevant organizations in supporting women scientists and in promoting the access of women and girls to and their participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education, training and research activities at all levels