Girls First
Educating and empowering teenage girls to reach their full potential by fostering personal growth, leadership skills, and meaningful connections!
Relive the Girls First 2024 Experience
About Girls First
Girls First is a ground-breaking conference dedicated to inspiring, empowering, and supporting girls to realize their full potential. The event aims to bring together girls from diverse backgrounds and interests to foster personal growth, leadership development, and meaningful connections. Through a series of engaging sessions, interactive workshops, and inspiring talks, Girls First creates a safe and inclusive space where girls can gain valuable skills, build self-confidence, and envision a future full of possibilities.
“Girls First is all about creating a safe, empowering, fun space. It provides attendees with knowledge, tools and most importantly, the mindset they’ll need, to go after that thing they envision”
Girls First Founder – Karen Darbasie
First Citizens Group Chief Executive Officer
2024 Workshops
Mind Matters – Self-Care and Wellness
This workshop offers a dynamic and engaging environment tailored for young women to delve into mental health topics and cultivate robust coping mechanisms. Participants will gain access to tools that bolster mental wellness, enable stress management, and equip them to tackle life’s hurdles with resilience.
Social Savvy – Digital Media Training
Through captivating activities, dynamic discussions, and practical exercises, participants will master the basics of well-known social media platforms and understand how to use social media for personal and professional advancement.
Empowered & Aware – Personal Safety
The personal safety workshop will provide comprehensive and empowering tips designed to equip young girls with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to prioritize their personal safety in various environments.
Dollar $igns – Financial Literacy
This financial literacy workshop will teach the basics of budgeting and the fundamentals of banking. This introductory course will equip patrons with an understanding of how savings accounts work and much more.
Join the Girls First Community – @FCGirlsFirst
In today’s world, creating a lasting impact goes beyond the boundaries of physical events. To extend the reach of our event, inspire behaviour change, and empower individuals to make a positive difference, we have created an Online Community on Instagram where young women can feel inspired, share their thoughts and stay up-to-date on trending topics.