Shine with Your Steps: Development Program for Young Women

Shine with Your Steps – Development Program for Young Women

Shine with Your Steps is a young women’s development program implemented in collaboration with the Community Volunteers Foundation (TOG) and The Estée Lauder Companies. Launched in November 2024 and lasting for five months, the program targets female university students in their 3rd and 4th years who are also TOG Community Volunteers.

The aim of the program is to strengthen participants’ personal and professional competencies, support them in making a stronger start to their careers, and empower TOG communities on gender equality. In line with this goal, the program provides comprehensive training, mentorship, and grant support to increase young women’s participation in economic life and reduce the challenges they face in the business world.

Within the scope of the project, 20 young women selected from 10 different TOG communities took part in a comprehensive training process that contributed to their personal and professional development. The training modules—focusing on gender equality, career planning, communication, and leadership—aimed to support young women on their individual empowerment journeys and equip them with knowledge and skills they could bring back to their own communities. At the end of the program, participants formed teams and developed their own project ideas centered on gender equality. These projects, shaped with mentorship support, were presented to a jury, and three selected projects received grant support.

Following the successful completion of the 2024 term, Shine with Your Steps has moved into its second cycle. With the new training period beginning in December, another group of 20 young women will participate in workshops designed to strengthen their personal and professional development, develop their own project ideas, and present them to a jury as teams; selected projects will receive grants and begin to be implemented in the field.

With this new cycle, Shine with Your Steps continues its mission with the same determination—supporting young women on their journey to create meaningful change with a focus on gender equality.