Growing up on Thursday Island, Kiyoshi Nakata-Binjuda loved to dance. “I would always be dancing at home….I just felt a passion for it.” When the idea of moving away to boarding school on a Yalari scholarship came up, Kiyoshi was understandably nervous. Thursday Island is a long way from Daisy Hill in Brisbane, where John […]
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“Growing up in a small community like Horn Island, opportunities were limited and unless someone from outside came and exposed you to something, you wouldn’t have known it was out there.” Sadiar Foster grew up on the islands of the Torres Strait with a love for reading and writing. And after a year at the
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They say it takes a community to educate a child; supporting 249 Indigenous children to attend leading boarding schools around Australia though, takes a network of dedicated individuals, families, organisations and corporate supporters. Yalari is supported by many throughout Australia, and, so often, individuals are able to highlight the importance of Indigenous education within their
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Cousins Faith and Azriel Bin Omar have been friends forever. Growing up in the remote Kimberley region of far north Western Australia, they’d swim in the river near their home town and swing off the rope into the water. Some days, they’d head upstream and ride the strong current back to the starting point. They’d
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“I remember my first Yalari interview like it was yesterday. I was 11 years old, sitting with my mum talking to Llew and Waverley in a spare TAFE classroom, just around the corner from my primary school in Kununurra. To anyone else, it would have just looked like four people talking in a room. But,
For Jodene, Yalari Opened Up A Room With 100 Doors Read More »
RPS is a global professional services firm with close to 1200 employees across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Through our work, we have the privilege of working with, and for many First Nations peoples and communities. Our passion is solving problems that matter for clients and communities. The fact that First Nations people don’t
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First Nations education initiatives follow on to Indigenous career experience Over the summer of 2020 Tyrese Carr, a recent graduate of Kinross Wolaroi School and beneficiary of Humanitix’s Indigenous scholarships funding, headed into the Humanitix office for a 5 week paid internship to learn about technology and sales. The Humanitix team was so excited to
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Humanitix is the not-for-profit ticketing platform that gives events impact. They make event management a breeze and give 100% of the profits from booking fees to education projects, including Yalari. As an event organiser, there’s no better feeling than to announce in your marketing material or at your event that you’ve helped fund someone’s education.
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