The Australian Women's Weekly

Opportunity The Cafe

Back in 2013, when The Weekly launched the Women of the Future scholarship program, a bright-eyed, young idealist called Jane Marx had a dream to open a cafe with a difference. Jane’s cafe would train refugees in barista and hospitality skills, and build their confidence through paid employment. She entered our inaugural awards and won $10,000 to help make her dream a reality.

“ could see something in me when others didn’t. From that point, things really started to take shape,” says Jane, now 33, the mother to three-year-old Yolandi and co-proprietor of a social

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