Lunch and Learn: Girls who grow
Enabling our next generation of female leaders as environmental guardians by connecting back to the land.
Project Drawdown ranked educated women and girls as the 6th most effective solution (out of 100 solutions) to enabling positive impact to the changes of the climate we are experiencing and Girls who Grow co-founders, Catherine van der Meulen and Aimee Blake have witnessed this first hand, through the implementation of their program for college students in Aotearoa.
With early stage funding support from WellingtonNZ, Girls who Grow have been activating their program in colleges across Wellington, Wairarapa, Kapiti Coast and Horowhenua supporting students to connect to nature and build meaningful and values aligned career pathways as environmental guardians.
Join founder Catherine van der Meulen and WellingtonNZ as they share more about how collaboration and partnerships in regional communities are critical to thriving ecosystems that will enable a prosperous and abundant Aotearoa for the future.
Speaker bio-
Catherine van der Meulen is the co-founder of Girls who Grow and is passionate about women, education and climate and the magic that happens when all three of these things collide. Over the past 20 years Catherine has designed, developed and implemented diverse education programs for our next generation of leaders including Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Discover your Purpose and now in the third year of activating Girls who Grow. Catherine moved from Sydney to the Awatere Valley in 2019 with her young family and by connected to the land and the abundance of nature in Aotearoa she embarked on a commitment to doing the most meaningful work that would also support all of her passions and interests. Catherine is currently serving her second term on the UN Women Aotearoa New Zealand Board, is a proud judge of the UN Women - Women's Empowerment Principles Annual Awards and is committed to being the change we want to see in the world.
