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Are you a qualified applicant?

The Soroptimist Club of Osoyoos is looking for qualified applicants in the South Okanagan to apply for our Women’s Opportunity Award.

The Women’s Opportunity Awards program assists women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills and employment prospects.

Each year, more than $1.5 million in education grants are awarded to more than 1,000 women, many of whom have overcome enormous obstacles including poverty, domestic violence and/or drug and alcohol abuse. Women’s Opportunity Award recipients may use the cash award to offset any costs associated with their efforts to attain higher education, such as books, childcare, tuition and transportation.

In addition to providing the primary financial support for their families, eligible applicants must be enrolled in, or have been accepted to, a vocational/skills training program or an undergraduate degree program and must demonstrate financial need.

The Women’s Opportunity Awards program involves three levels of cash awards.  The program begins at the local Soroptimist club-level, where the award is $1,500.00.  Local-level award recipients become eligible for region-level awards of either $3,000 or $5,000. Region-level award recipients then become eligible to receive one of three international-level awards of $10,000.

Since the Women’s Opportunity Awards program began in 1972, about $30 million in education grants have been disbursed to assist tens of thousands of women achieve their dreams of a better life for themselves and their families. In 2007, the Women’s Opportunity Awards received the Associations Advance America Summit Award—ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership’s highest level of recognition.

For more information contact Kate Krist at (250) 498-3833.  Applications can be found at www.soroptimist.org.  Follow the link Women’s Opportunity Awards…Apply today; Quick Links – Apply for a Soroptimist Women’s Opportunity Award.  Deadline is December 1, 2013.   You can also read about this program’s impact on women’s lives and meet the 2012 award finalist.