Presentation Kilkenny girls team up with professional mentors
Programme sets out to pair adolescent girls around Ireland with professional female mentors
A group of students from Presentation Kilkenny are among the girls taking part in a new mentorship programme which sets out to pair adolescent girls around Ireland with professional female mentors.
Lily Ann Holden, Kia Fahy, Taryn Morant, and Hollie Gorman from Presentation Secondary School are working with the non-profit Shona Project, an organisation which strives to create a support system for Irish girls as they navigate their way through their teenage years.
The businesses taking part in the first year of the programme are Allianz, CBRE, Fitzgerald Power, McCann Fitzgerald, Salesforce, and Smyth Creative Communications and VHI. These companies will supply a total of 26 professional mentors who were paired with a teenage girl from schools around the country until the end of the this school year.
For the 2024-25 academic year, The Shona Project are on track to reach almost 190,000 girls through workshops, events, and other projects.