What is NiNa?
NiNa is a young leadership programme that focuses on creating an entrepreneurial culture and mindset in young women in the Caribbean. The NiNa Programme equips young girls ages 15 to 18 with entrepreneurial tools and fosters an entrepreneurial culture and mind-set to deal with the challenges encountered within their environment.
NiNa Goals
NiNa seeks to create a cadre of young female leaders in the Caribbean through training in life skills, leadership, self belief and entrepreneurship.
NiNa Activities
NiNa has several activities under four streams of work –
NiNa School Programme,
NiNa Jude’s Home for Girls Programme
NiNa Summer Programme
NiNa Transition Programme
Learn & Get Inspired
It takes a village… NiNa's Transition Programme providing resource networks, safe physical and psychological spaces, personal healing, growth and development and facilitating education for young women aging out of state care.
Spotlighting
Bodacious Girls
The Bodacious Girls is an annual Gala which celebrates the young ladies of the NiNa Programme and serve as the largest fund raiser for the programme.
Held at the historic Castle Kilarney, the Gala has continued to not only raise the profile of the NiNa Programme, it also builds the confidence of the young ladies as they are able to transform into Bold and Audacious young women for the event.
Features:
Bodacious Gala for St Jude’s Girls - March 2019
St Jude's girls learn power in entrepreneurship - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday - March 2020
