New bursary offers hope to refugee women

Posted on Friday, October 28th, 2022

New bursary offers hope to refugee women

Pictured from left to right: Patricia Duffey, CFUW-Ottawa, Chair, Scholarship Trust Fund; Kyle Jorgensen-Lane, Manager of Financial Aid and Student Awards; Ola Asekun, HOMSA, Nigeria; Lorna Bickerton, CFUW-Ottawa; Sarah Harvey, HOMSA, New Zealand, HOPE Committee Chair. Photo by Nancy Druick

Algonquin College is pleased to announce the creation of a new bursary for refugee women. The HOPE Bursary for Refugee Women was made possible through a partnership between the CFUW-Ottawa and the Heads of Mission Spouses Association (HOMSA).

HOMSA and CFUW-Ottawa raised the $10,000 gift to support this bursary by hosting the HOPE Gala for Refugee Women in May 2022.

The $2,000 HOPE Bursary for Refugee Women will be awarded annually for the next five years to a woman in the second or third year of a diploma program who is a convention refugee, a protected person, or a permanent resident who was a refugee/protected person.


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