Making your way up
Making your way up
The project Making Your Way Up , created by Sayaspora and funded by Canadian Heritage, addresses the barriers to employment and career mobility faced by marginalized and systematically underrepresented young women aged 18-30 in the African diaspora (including communities in the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern and Eastern Africa and the Caribbean).
The project proposes a two-pronged response, offering tools to negotiate entry into key employment sectors while developing an awareness campaign to help employers and the public better understand the various issues arising from systematic racism and how it operates in the workplace.
Making your way up is...
A bilingual online educational platform
For women of the African and Caribbean Diaspora, the general Canadian public and Canadian employers.
Awareness campaigns
Designed and launched for the public to influence dominant discourses and negative stereotypes that prevent a broader understanding of systemic racism in the employment sectors.
A national online educational networking event
Offering workshops and conferences for young women in the African diaspora.
A mentorship program
For 25 young women of the African and Caribbean Diaspora in collaboration with 10 mentors.
A series of creative publications capturing the essence of our uniqueness.
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