Recap of the RTGB's Official Website Launch Party

Road Town, Tortola, November 26, 2021 - At a successful virtual website launch event on Thanksgiving Day, 25th November 2021, and before invited guests and well-wishers, the girls and young ladies of the Road Town Girls’ Brigade (RTGB) launched their new website: rtgb.org.

The host of the event, 16-year-old Chris-Tiyah Roberts, noted that the website was a Twenty-one (21) year old dream of the RTGB come true. She said that the organisation long envisioned a website which was built and managed by the girls, with content created with girls, for girls, women, and people everywhere. The young host further shared that many cohorts of the RTGB have attempted the website project over the years and that the project has suffered many setbacks. She then congratulated, young RTGB Leader, Chris-Tiann Roberts, who successfully led this website project with the present cohort of girls because of

her passion to complete the project which she had personally been a part of for all her Brigade life.

Chris-Tiann Roberts said that the website is a way that the girls and young ladies can use their creativity and innovation to give service to other girls and women, but ultimately to give service to the Lord, Jesus Christ. Therefore, she was happy to serve in this way.

The event also saw the girls and young ladies honouring some of the leaders of the RTGB who, the host said, keeps them motivated to achieve. Honoured were Leader Carmen (Gwennie) Rennie, Leader Lydia Scatliffe, and Young Leader Chelsea Marcellin.

Two (2) young, longstanding, members of the RTGB, who will soon upload their website projects were featured at the event. RTGB Senior, Wendy Thomas, a Grade 9 student, spoke about RTGB T-Shirts which she is designing to be placed in the RTGB Website’s Online Shop for public purchase, with the funds being used for RTGB upkeep. Additionally, RTGB Brigader, Beyoncé Johnson, a Grade 11 student, spoke about her project of creating and uploading a Website blog which features her review of movies for public dialog.

Captain of the Road Town Girls’ Brigade, Jo-Ann Roberts, congratulated the girls and young ladies for their success on the Website Project which she acknowledged is based on the theme: “I am effectively sharing my faith” and on the bible reference, Philemon Chapter 6, verse 6. She noted that the project has officially kicked the 65-year-old BVI Youth Organisation into the digital age.

She said that “although the RTGB will continue with well planned, non- Thursday, face to face activities, it now has officially moved to safe, convenient 100% Online Company meetings on Thursdays and all girls and young ladies, home and abroad, are invited to attend. She noted that the RTGB has taken up the international GB President’s challenge which was last given in a speech for the International Day of the Girl Child on 11th October 2021 to push digital technology, digital literacy, technology in creativity and to ensure that girls and women are full participants in the Information Age and in Information

Technology”.

As a mark of encouragement, the Captain then launched a public challenge for any and all persons or groups to become the Website’s Theme Song Star for 2021 with an associated “Big Bucks” Prize for the Winner on 23rd December2021, just in time for Christmas shopping! Details of the competition are found on the website: rtgb.org.

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About the Road Town Girls’ Brigade: It is an International, Interdenominational, Uniformed organisation and afterschool program for girls 5 -21 years of age and women. Girls and young ladies earn badges around a 4-sided program featuring Physical, Spiritual, Educational and Service activities. International President call for moving the girls to the Digital age: Message given on 11 October 2021 in celebration of the International Day of the Girl Child: News - Girls' Brigade Worldwide (gbworldwide.org).