Barton Marine supports the Global Women's Walk 2025
by Barton Marine 7 Apr 2025 07:30 UTC
Barton Marine supports the Global Women's Walk 2025 © Barton Marine
The worldwide marine industry is called upon to help raise funds for Room to Read, a global nonprofit organisation dedicated to promoting equality for girls and eradicating illiteracy through its Girls' Education Program. The Global Women's Walk is designed as "an everywhere, everyone, in every way 5 km walk" to support the charity and celebrate women making a valiant difference in the marine industry.
Barton Marine is a long-term partner of Women In Marine events and a true believer that women can and should achieve great heights across all roles in the marine industry. Suzanne Blaustone, Barton Marine CEO is helping to organise the event, and the Barton Team will be getting involved to walk and raise money for a great cause. "Barton will participate by dividing our Barton Walk up during lunch hours over a week in late April. It will be great to take a break from the office, get some fresh air and a bit of exercise while supporting Room to Read!"
The Global Women's Walk 2025 is a worldwide initiative to celebrate, support, and uplift women across the marine industry on the International Day for Women in Maritime 2025, observed on the 18th May. The day aims to recognise women working in the Marine Industry, addressing the current gender imbalance by encouraging female recruitment, retention and promotion to senior levels. The Global Women's Walk supports the IMO's commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of gender equality.
Getting involved is easy with participants able to walk 5 km / 3.2 miles anywhere, with anyone and at any time before and up to the week of 11-18 May, 2025. Through donations to Room to Read, those involved will be helping to empower women through education, giving them the opportunity to create brighter, independent futures in the marine industry and far beyond.
Register your participation through marine trade magazine, Trade Only Today at www.tradeonlytoday,com/global-womens-walk-2025 and share your walk on social media using #GlobalWomensWalk2025 to inspire everyone worldwide. For those individuals and companies wishing to support the worldwide Women's Walk goals for Room to Read, please visit the donation page at secure.roomtoread.org/page/168273/donate/1.
Please share this news far and wide. Enjoy your walk!