International Women’s Week
Luba GRIGOROVITCH (Kororoit) (13:23): Happy International Women’s Week. As part of the International Women’s Day celebrations this week I hosted a Kororoit community International Women’s Day morning tea yesterday. This is the second year that I have done this, and this year I decided to do something a little different. With International Women’s Day providing us with an opportunity to formally recognise the contributions and achievements of women in our lives, I invited community members to nominate a woman who lives, works, volunteers or studies in Kororoit who deserves to be recognised for her contributions to our community. We had an overwhelming response, with so many inspiring stories of the talented local women in Kororoit, from women working in the mental health space to empowering women in our multicultural communities to advocating for equality in our media and to those grassroots volunteers that our community thrives on.
To Wendy, Claire, Sana, Noor, Nikki, Rachael, Melanie, Meryam, Rena, Niti and Cecilia: I was honoured to recognise and award these women for the work that each and every one of them does changing lives and helping people within our community.
I also want to thank Tanja Kovac and Maree Overall, who are the co-founders and co-CEOs of Gender Lens Australia, for being the guest speakers. These two amazing women have worked tirelessly and campaigned and championed gender equality across Victoria, and I am in awe of both of them. Again, happy International Women’s Week.