TWRE Sailing Team merged wind power to women power and transformed it into social responsibility

TWRE, Turkish Women in Renewables and Energy Group, empowered women in the energy sector with their success of winning the 4th place in the IRC 3 class race, defeating their experienced competitors during the Mermaid Women’s Cup, which is the one and only national women sailing championship, organized between  6-8 September 2019 in the Marmara Sea, Turkey.

15 teams including corporate and individual women sailors competed in the 4th Mermaid Women’s Cup which ended with breathless races. The cup went on for 3 days, under the auspices of Turkey Sailing Federation and the collaboration of Istanbul Sailing Club, including 6 races of two kinds, geographical and buoy race.

Having decided to participate in the race in a very short time and established the TWRE sailing team, with great courage and team spirit, after only 20 hours of training, with the supervision of Cansu Güler from Hedef Yelken on the helm,  Simay Akar from Eko Temiz Enerji A.Ş 

Selma Karaduman and Selin Erbakırcı from Karaduman Hukuk Bürosu,
Kardelen Afrodit Adsal from Nordic Folkecenter for RE & Biotech ARGE Hizmetleri A.Ş.,
Şükran Çubuğuuzun,Yeşim Türkgeldi and Selin Kalyoncu from Polat Enerji A.Ş.,
Sedef Budak and Selin İpin from Windfor S.r.l  as team members, completed the race with a CORBY 29.

TWRE awarded by Woman TV with a special award

TWRE Founder President Sedef Budak, who spoke to TRT Radio and Woman TV within the organization said:

“TWRE is a women’s initiative to increase women’s employment and to ensure that gender equality is established in the energy, infrastructure and construction sector in Turkey. Since 2018, we have brought together nearly 1000 members and we are a group of women who continue to grow and adopt the principles of zero ego and transparency. We provide support and mentoring to students and new graduates for their careers, bringing together valuable women who have gained experience at different levels in the energy sector and young women who are new to the business life and we believe that they are the future of the energy transition. We were very happy and excited when we heard that the Mermaid Sailing Cup brought together female sailors for parallel purposes with us. 

The main prize of this competition actually was our contribution to AÇEV as an organization which helps children, parents and young women who are in need, from all around the country, by developing and applying science-based training programs.

We would like to thank all the TWRE Sailing Team for their dedication and effort, who decided and became a licensed sailors recognized by the Sailing Federation in just one month. We would also like to thank Serap Gökçebay, Arzu Çekirge Paksoy and their teams for organizing the event. We are transforming the power of the wind and the power of women into social responsibility also in this national race. We are glad and proud.”