Local student wins Life Long Learner Award
3 August 2007
Winning the industry judged Lifelong Learner Award from the Community Services and Health Training Board feels is a dream come true for Yeon Leslie.
A Williamstown resident, Yeon studied the Diploma of Community Welfare Work at Kangan Batman TAFE's Broadmeadows Campus and impressed her teachers and her peers straight away.
The Awards were held on July 19, 2007, at the Plaza Ballroom in Collins Street. When the award for Lifelong Learner was announced Yeon was ecstatic. 'It felt like a fairy tale. I have never felt special before but this made me feel like the Board really believed in me,' Yeon said.
This is the not the first award Yeon Leslie has won. She was also recognised in the 2007 Kangan Batman TAFE Student of the Year Awards.
Yeon worked as a mathematics teacher in South Korea before moving to Australia in 2000. Despite her limited English skills and lack of family support and social network, Yeon's passion to help people meant she never let obstacles like this stand in her way.
As well as her excellence academically, Yeon has also been recognised for her commitment to helping others. Yeon volunteers at the Western Women's Domestic Violence Support Network and is passionate about extending services for Korean people in Australia, and plans to study a degree in social work to further develop her skills.
'I know that this award means people expect big things from me and I am ready to go above and beyond those expectations,' Yeon said.
