The second batch of the SEED Project’s Change Makers graduated on Tuesday, June 25, and the new graduates are already putting what they learnt to work.
SEED Project member and Change Maker Priscilla Davis started volunteering at Murrindindi Ranges Wildlife Shelter Inc and is aspiring to take up a course on zoology.
She said the support she had received from The SEED Project had been a big help in her achievement.
Ms Davis has taken classes on public speaking, stepping stones, changemakers and more that is offered in the program.
SEED Project project co-ordinator Sam Hugill said she was very proud of what Ms Davis had achieved with the Change Makers program.
“She's a totally different woman from when she first walked in,” Ms Hugill said.
“I would say probably wouldn't say boo to a ghost when you (Ms Davis) first arrived, but now a lot more confident, a lot more assertive.”
Ms Davis said her newfound confidence let her make many friends with the members of The SEED Project.
“I love being confident, I see a different person,” she said.
Ms Davis encourages every woman to join in and learn what she learnt at the Change Makers.
Ms Hugill said The SEED Project’s door was always open to any women, not only for Change Makers, but a lot more.
“We open our door to any woman in the Seymour and surrounds to come in,” she said.
“We basically focus on financial wellbeing, but we do also look at that confidence and empowerment and also helping women to make new connections, new friends, and they build their own confidence by doing that.
“We're hanging out today at the party because some of the Change Makers are here together and having met through The SEED Project, so that's just magic.”