24/Jun/2010
Eliza-Jane Barnett presents Woodvale Senior High School chaplain Carol Stokes with the cheque for $500.
GIRLS at Woodvale Senior High School are profiting from a $500 donation from Women Can International.
The money will go towards the school’s Shine Girls program, which helps to raise teenage girls’ confidence through personal development, deportment and behavioural training.
WCI founder and chairwoman Hayley Solich said the idea to donate to Shine came from a member whose daughter attended Woodvale and thought it was a valuable program for young women.
“(She) said it was a really, really good program but some of its programs were in need of an upgrade,” Mrs Solich said.
The money was raised through an auction held on International Women’s Day by the WCI where girls as young as seven were invited despite the WCI normally being for women 18 years and older.
Mrs Solich said the WCI aims to help young women “finally take the next step in their journey”.
