Community Awards Update
This year the Rotary Club of Footscray is again supporting and sponsoring 2 very important Awards in our Vocational Services programs- the Mambourin and Evan Phillips awards.
Partnering with Mambourin Enterprises, our Club will present 3 Awards, which include $1,000 to each recipient matched dollar for dollar with Mambourin in these categories:-
1. Outstanding Supported Employee
2. Outstanding Disability Support Worker
3. First Year Disability Support Worker
This is the third year of the Awards, which are aimed at retention of valued employees in the Disability Support Sector of the community.
Continuing also is the Club’s partnership with the WPC Group in awarding the annual Evan Phillips Scholarship, which rewards an outstanding apprentice, or trainee by giving them ‘a hand up, not a hand out’, and helping them reach their full potential. The Scholarship is open to applicants residing or working in Maribyrnong, Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Wyndham and Melton Councils.
The Scholarship will award $2,500 in conjunction with the family of the late Evan Phillips, a past stalwart of the Rotary Club of Footscray.
Both events will be conducted at our 2 and 16 May meetings.