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Two Organisational Initiatives

We have also interviewed 2 IMRF members who are both running initiatives focused on increasing the participation of young girls in maritime SAR. Andrew Tate, RNLI, talks about the RNLI’s Women in Engineering (WinE) Day, and Julie Schneider from VISAR speaks about VISAR’s own youth trainees initiative.


Interview: Head of In-Service Support, RNLI, UK Women in Engineering (WinE) Day - PDF	Interview:Julie Schneider, Exec. Creative Director & Josie Giersing, Volunteer Crew Member Virgin Islands Search & Rescue (VISAR) Preparing for the future, training to support succession planning talking about VISAR youth training initiative - PDF

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