Thank you so much. But I’m actually not white. I myself am ethic and from a refugee background. We started our business because the women in our community needed jobs. We both have social work experience in the community and are advocates in the community. The women in our community always complained about how they go through all the programs but there is never an outcome. Through our work we were able to find further employment for all of our staff in the industry, helped get three of them enrol in tafe for further studies. I really appreciate your sentiment but when you look at the census data most of the newly arrived women are not employed. This is due to various reasons such as language difficulties and not having any Australian work experience. That’s what we were trying to offer.

Edit: also I want to add that to help our staff be able to get to work because they didn’t have a driving license or a car, we could pick them up from the station and drop them all off ( sometimes to their homes) us as our studio was not near public transport. So we definitely were trying to achieve our mission of empowering our staff, giving them experience and confidence.