Girls from Oz

Grant Year:

2016

Focus Area(s):

Education

Geographic Area(s):

Western Australia

Website:

https://girlsfromoz.org.au/

In 2016, Girls from Oz received $28,000 towards the delivery of an intensive performing arts program, where ten music and dance educators taught 55 Aboriginal girls and up to five women elders as well as local teachers and teacher aides in Halls Creek, in the East Kimberley region of WA.

Prospects for girls in Halls Creek are poor with less than 13% finishing school to year 11, 4% not attending, and unemployment at 15.4%. Girls from Oz were invited to Halls Creek in 2009 to address this need and to develop a way to increase the engagement of First Nations / Aboriginal girls in school and community life as well as exposing participants to a range of learning environments for further training, education and leadership.

View their website here

Postal Address:

100 Women Public Ancillary Fund
PO Box 7273
Karawara WA 6152

ABN: 83 800 305 880

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Our definition of women includes transgender and cisgender, all those who experience or have experienced oppression as women, including non-binary and gender non-conforming people and all those who identify as women.

We would also like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this land, the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island People. We would like to acknowledge their continued connection to this Country and recognise that their culture is alive, and their connections continue as they have before we were here, and will continue as one of the oldest cultures in the world.

We pay our respects to the Elders both past and present and their special place in the community together with the emerging youth coming through.