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Australia Awards - South and West Asia recently ran an activity to gather alumni insights, hearing from a diverse range of alumni with a variety of stories to share. Highlights of their Australia Awards experiences ranged from academic achievements and community development to extracurricular engagements.

Drishya Gurung is currently pursuing a Master of Education at Monash University through an Australia Awards Scholarship.

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, 30 Australia Awards scholars from South and West Asia attended the ICC Women’s Twenty20 Cricket World Cup final at the spectacular Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Australia Awards scholar Amalka Edirisinghe from Sri Lanka is a clinical psychologist by profession, currently completing her Master of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at Flinders University in South Australia.

Australia Awards scholars from South and West Asia who are living in Adelaide had the opportunity recently to attend Aboriginal cultural awareness and sensitivity training