b'LABOUR FORCE FEATUREMarnwit Zewude and Eldana Yemane were two of the sixWe need all girls in this province to fully believe in their students selected to attend the event from Valley Gardens potential, Squires affirmed. If you want to be an amazing Middle School. carpenter and build homes and build communities, if you I chose to come because I feel like girls dont get manywant to be an engineer and build bridges and life-changing opportunities and I want to be a construction worker when Iinfrastructure, you can do anything you want. Dont be afraid grow up, Zewude said, adding that the highlight was seeingto ask questions, because youre around a bunch of amazing the women who are working with the tools. I think its amazingleaders who want to show you the pathway.to see where you finally get to work. Im just happy to see thatWith new opportunities and ideas added to their toolkit, these theyre doing what they wanted to do when they were growingyoung participants are now poised to help build long-term up. Thats the dream. success for women in Manitobas construction industry.Over the course of the day, students went from station to station, buttering a brick with mortar at the bricklaying station,Currently, four per cent of our skilled trades [workers] are soldering a small piece of pipe at the plumbing station, andwomen, Nadeau told the students. You are all a part of learning the basics of operating a piece of heavy equipment. ourtomorrows. 44 BUILD MANITOBAwinnipegconstruction.ca'