Big Think Rural Women program launches in the Riverina

Women in regional areas will be given the chance to join an innovative program targeted at providing solutions to agricultural challenges. The program is called “Riverina Collective’s Think Big Rural Women program” and focuses in cultivating community leadership expansion in females who reside in small rural communities across the Riverina area.

Women in regional areas will be given the chance to join an innovative program targeted at providing solutions to agricultural challenges.

The program is called “Riverina Collective’s Think Big Rural Women program”  and focuses in cultivating community leadership expansion in females who reside in small rural communities across the Riverina area.

Founder of the initiative, Hayley Purbrick explains that the the program is necessary for grasping the potential of women in the region as well as offer solutions to rural challenges.

She disclosed that the Think Big program will be conducted in collaboration with the Ricegrowers Association of Australia for females and is a program held once a year for women residing in small communities across the area.

As she commented, the program aims to involve all levels of the rural community and concentrates on creative brain storming to find solutions.

The program will last 12 weeks and accept between 30-50 participants in separate groups to deal with rural agricultural problems of the region.

The program will also feature numerous workshops to assist in the support of business skills and encouraging confidence to participate in constructive discussions about agricultural and rural challenges and community living more broadly.

Ms Purbrick has specified that each group will be shown a list of real rural issues by industry experts and throughout the course of 12 weeks, the members are expected to come up with creative ideas to tackle these issues.

These teams will also gain access to key field experts to make sure they have the resources and support to overcome the challenges presented efficiently with great planning and implementation of solutions.

The program finishes with a presentation event evening where each team will demonstrate their final solution in front of the judges together with community and agricultural field professionals.

This final gala constitutes a celebration of creative concepts and ideas of the team members to be presented and shared with others.

She hopes that the program will foster a better partnership between the field and the community and offer members an improved understanding of the problems faced in the agricultural field and rural regions while allowing the to provide solutions to this problems.

She added that more robust connections and new community leaders, the communities will be more able to convert problems and challenges to opportunities for growth.