A Chance For Women To Advance
Always keen to show what is possible out there, heere is a article that may help someone!
BONNERS FERRY — With the economy on the
rise, new job opportunities have opened up, but not all jobs are
available to people who haven’t completed a higher level of education at
a college. Many women and housewives go through a period where they
have spent all of their time making a home and caring for their
families, that they put their career on the backburner until their
children grow up and are no longer as dependent on their parents.
“Many women do that. We forget about ourselves, put ourselves in the background, and support our husbands and children,” said Debora Perry, president of the local P.E.O chapter. “We forget about us. Then when we get to be in our 40s and 50s, and they start thinking hey, maybe I should do something for me.”
There are programs in place for women to utilize and go back to school, be it a scholarship, loan, or grant. One of these is the P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education and it is aimed toward women with at least two years of college schooling, and many women may qualify to receive it.
P.E.O. stands for Philanthropic Educational Organization, and their goal is to help women receive a higher education, supporting them with a grant and moral support throughout their careers. Through the P.E.O. program, there is the P.C.E. grant, which is aimed towards women who want to continue their schooling.
In the Boundary County chapter of the organization, Tanya Currie has been awarded the grant to help her continue to pursue her dreams.
“In the position I’m at in my work, you cannot move up without a degree, and you have to have a masters for speech therapy and it is a very competitive field,” said Currie. “When I stayed home with my children all those years, my husband worked for Currie Masonry, which people can see their work around town. The business closed during the hard time in 2009, so I was in a need to work too.”
Always keen to show what is possible out there, heere is a article that may help someone!
A chance for women to advance
“Many women do that. We forget about ourselves, put ourselves in the background, and support our husbands and children,” said Debora Perry, president of the local P.E.O chapter. “We forget about us. Then when we get to be in our 40s and 50s, and they start thinking hey, maybe I should do something for me.”
There are programs in place for women to utilize and go back to school, be it a scholarship, loan, or grant. One of these is the P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education and it is aimed toward women with at least two years of college schooling, and many women may qualify to receive it.
P.E.O. stands for Philanthropic Educational Organization, and their goal is to help women receive a higher education, supporting them with a grant and moral support throughout their careers. Through the P.E.O. program, there is the P.C.E. grant, which is aimed towards women who want to continue their schooling.
In the Boundary County chapter of the organization, Tanya Currie has been awarded the grant to help her continue to pursue her dreams.
“In the position I’m at in my work, you cannot move up without a degree, and you have to have a masters for speech therapy and it is a very competitive field,” said Currie. “When I stayed home with my children all those years, my husband worked for Currie Masonry, which people can see their work around town. The business closed during the hard time in 2009, so I was in a need to work too.”
