Scholarships for volunteers

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The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) is administering a new $1 million Australian Government scholarship fund to boost education development opportunities for emergency management volunteers. The scholarships will be made available to Australian citizens or permanent residents who are volunteers in an emergency management agency for accredited emergency management vocational or higher education.

More than half of the scholarships will be reserved for specific groups of volunteers:

• those who live in a regional or rural area
• female volunteers
• Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander volunteers.

These scholarships will equip emergency management volunteers to best prepare and respond to a range of disasters and build national resilience.

For more information about the scholarships and the application process visit www.aidr.org.au.