2017 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award
7/10/2017Tanya Dupagne has been named the 2017 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award National winner and South Australia’s Simone Kain, the national runner up.It was announced in Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday night.
Tanya Dupagne has been named the 2017 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award National winner and South Australia’s Simone Kain, the national runner up.It was announced in Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday night.She is an innovator, philanthropist and community leader from Western Australia’s wheatbelt. Her project is based on a camp program to help women from regional WA children by teaching practical skills, self-confidence and leadership.
In order to further her project, she will receive a $10,000 grant from Westpac which is as a result of winning the competition in WA state.
Simone Kain from SA is the 2017 national runner up and she will also be building on her successful ‘George the Farmer’ stories and three new educational children’s resources, focusing on the wide and varied careers that are possible in agriculture, and featuring her other popular character Dr Ruby, a talented agronomist.