Fostering women's assistance worldwide.

0:01 Speaker 1 What is today is Cat Pharrell and Joe Parsons their assistance to King Charles of Great Britain and the world, and they manage the Prince’s Trust which helps helps children from all around the world, and both are truly international women.

0:28 And in the United States we are celebrating International Women’s Day. Well, Cat Pharah and Joe Parsons, tell me how many countries are you involved in and how far are you helping children in the world through the Prince’s Trust, which I’m sure will be renamed the King’s Trust in the near future.

0:58 That’s right.

0:59 Speaker 2 Thank you so much much, John for having us on and giving us a platform to talk about the important work that we do and on such a special special day of the year as well, So I mean John, you touched on it there. We provide very important work and support to young men and young women, but particularly today,

1:20 we want to focus on the work that we do with young women. So it’s fair to say that women and girls are disproportionately impacted by a lack of opportunity and access to education and employment across the world, and we see it as the Prince’s Trust duty to make sure that young women are empowered to kind of make

1:41 good choices, to have opportunities to build brighter futures and to look forward at the choices they are able to make in life. And particularly after the challenges that we’ve all felt, the kind of health crises that we’ve had to be, the pandemic, the financial crises that is ever across the world, young women more than ever have been

2:03 prevented from moving forward, you know, access to ongoing education and job opportunities, the skills to set up businesses, and we work with women from kind of Greece through Ta Ghana to give them the opportunities to succeed. And I guess I’ll pass on to Joe because Joe, I’m sure will take great pleasure and tell me a little bit

2:24 more about those programs and how we support So Joe, do you want to expand on some of that? Yes, thanks Kat And in answer to your question ledge On. We’re currently with the Princes Trust supporting young people across twenty three countries globally, but two verses of those last year we’re all young women and girls, which is absolutely fantastic.

2:47 We really work to support those young people through education, employability and enterprise programs globally helping them to build this core skills for life, things like confidence, communication, and teamwork, as well as sector specific and business skills so that ultimately they can go into the jobs and jobs of the future and really sort of flourish and succeed. So, yes,

3:12 we’re very global. We’re actually delighted to be doing work in the US as well. And as Kat said, it’d be really wonderful to share a little bit more about some of the work that we’ve been doing with young women across the world as well.

3:29 Speaker 1 Understood and what countries do you find it easier to work in in what countries that you need to work harder in to help young women? And you tell us.

3:50 Speaker 2 So, I mean, Joe, you’ll expand on this, but I think every country has its unique challenges. I mean, even here in the UK, young women are prevented from moving forward with multiple barriers that within their own situation, within their own communities. Those challenges are even more acutely affecting young people over other parts of the world. So I

4:14 would say they all come with unique challenges. And ensuring that we have the opportunity to provide the services that we do and giving young women the access is probably our greatest challenge the world over, because there are all sorts of things that prevent young women from taking on the opportunities that we have available, be those within their community,

4:37 within their home, and it’s really about breaking down those barriers, and for us at the Trust, it’s really about making sure that all the key stakeholders in the lives of these young women allow them access and that our opportunities are open to young women so that they can gain economic and opportunity dependence so that they can kind of

4:59 move forward. And Joe, I don’t know if you pick out any particular countries that you think have really flourished with our.

5:06 Speaker 1 Support over recent years.

5:08 Speaker 2 Well, that’s a lovely question, Kat, because I was obviously really proud of the work that we do everywhere. It’s really hard to just pick one out. I would say that the only other thing I particularly add on that is that we are so fortunate that the work that we do we work with in country delivery partners and

5:27 all over the world, and actually those are other organizations we’ve really like minded ambitions to want to support these young people. So it’s in this partnership that we’re really able to overcome challenges, take opportunities, create innovation to really support those young girls globally. I mean, just for example, ninety percent of the young women that went into employment, sorry,

5:51 ninety percent of the young women that were on our enterprise programs last year all went into what we call a positive outcome, so starting a business or going into work or further education. I know that speaks themselves. And John, you’ll loved this. We recently last year had two young women to go through our enterprise program in Greece and

6:14 they went on through the skills that they acquired through our program to set up their own e commerce business, and then later on through our employability program, they actually came back as employers and provided employment opportunities for young people in Greece through their business.

6:34 Speaker 1 And that is wonderful.

6:36 Speaker 2 Circle. Yeah, that’s what we love.

6:39 Speaker 1 That is wonderful. Now, I must tell you, I understand you’re coming to the States. You want to meet more CEOs. You want to meet people that want to help these women and these children worldwide in those twenty three countries that you’re working on. Now, I see it is true the sun number sets and the British power and true,

7:04 but you’re helping in many different ways, and the American people we look forward to seeing you in May when you’re coming, and we’re looking forward to get as many people involved as you as we can. And all the American people are praying for King Charles to get well and and what is the expression of God, save the King.

7:36 Speaker 2 Thank you. We’ve been inundated with well wishes for the King, and of course our thoughts are with him and the family as he gets back to his former self. So we thank you very much for those well wishes, and we look forward to him being at the forefront of lots of more opportunities and engagements us in the future.

8:01 Speaker 1 Well, we look forward to seeing you. May God bless and thank you for everything you do. You do God’s work and the King’s work to help save a lot of those children worldwide. Thank you so much.

8:15 Speaker 2 Thank you John, take care of you. Check out