FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. – Elementary school girls in Franklin County are learning to dream big outside of the classroom.
3rd through 5th grade girls at Callaway Elementary can participate in ‘this girl can club’, a club that focuses on empowering young girls to be all they can be and to think outside the box.
For their last meeting of the year, the girls spent the afternoon at a mini vendor fair.
Girls learned about different woman-owned local businesses and what it means to be an entrepreneur.
“All of the women who are here today are leaders within the community, own their own businesses, and they are going to share with our girls all the fun things that they do, and we hope that it will inspire them to know that they can do whatever they want to do as well,” said Carolyn Sharpe- the school librarian and club sponsor.
“It’s fun and you get to do lots of things and people come and it’s very fun when you get to learn a lot of things about what they do,” said Jamesha West, a 3rd grade student and club member.
Some of the businesses included jewelry making, confectionary, beekeeping and woodworking.
Students even got to make their own smores and wooden magnets.
