Hobsons Bay’s most inspirational young people have been proclaimed as part of National Youth Week.
The awards were presented by Future Leaders Unite and Hobsons Bay council last week to people aged 12-25 years.
Group winners were all-girl band,
She Wolf, for challenging masculine stereotypes in rock music, 10 participants in Hobsons Bay council’s 2014 Whitten Project who completed a seven-month youth leadership program with the Western Bulldogs, and the Fill your Sole community project, in which nine women filled empty shoeboxes with necessities to give to homeless youth.
Six individual winners were announced for fundraising, outstanding academic achievement and services to the community.
Eritrea-born Noela Ido is a trilingual student from Bayside College. Charlee Jane Maru organised several festivals for the west’s Mauri and Polynesian community. Noah Callan, who has dyskinetic cerebral palsy, has overcome enormous barriers. Former Altona P-9 College captain Daniel Ketchley raised $600 for Diabetes Australia while Tim Lilley, recipient of the Australian Defence Force Long Tan leadership and teamwork award, goes into the Melbourne University Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars Program. Pianist Damian He was awarded for exceptional academic achievements at Bayside College.
Goya Dmytryshchak
