Spring Walk raises nearly $1,000

Gaye Morrison

Student exchange manager Kate Smart (front) steps out accompanied by Development and International colleagues Helen Deutsch (left), Tiffany King and Jo Gilfilan (right) Photo: Edward O'Daly

24 October 2006: Staff, friends and also some children joined together on Friday 20 October for a spring walk to Lake Ginninderra to raise money for UNIFEM peace scholars. Led by the Chancellor, Professor Ingrid Moses, walkers crossed to John Knight Memorial Park before returning to the University’s staff club.

Leonie-Ruth Acland, Director of the University of Canberra’s Harmony Program was delighted with the walk which raised $906 for UNIFEM. The money will go to support two Afghanistan scholarship winners who have commenced law studies at UTS and Macquarie Universities in Sydney, and a young woman from Timor Leste who will study maternal health in Australia in 2007.

Addressing the group prior to the start of the walk, Professor Moses said that as a multicultural campus it was important to support the UNIFEM campaign that will assist women to undertake studies in Australia.