English classes at African House are showing South Sudanese women the right steps to enter the workforce.
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Steps to Success co-convener Lorna Gillespie said women's economic participation in society was closely linked to their "agency, health and wellbeing".
She said women needed to comprehensively grasp the English language in an "Australian context" to achieve employment.
Lorna has a long history with the women going through the course, dating back to when they first settled in Shepparton.
Shepparton’s Agoness Kuol is taking part in the program because she wants to be a midwife and "likes to help and support women giving birth".
She understands she has to learn English before she can study to be a midwife.
“In five years’ time I will get a job,” Mrs Kuol said.
Antonita Kuol, who also lives in Shepparton, has found learning English hard at times but is determined to follow in her mother’s footsteps.
She said she wanted to become a nurse because she enjoyed helping and caring for people.