Minmaku Palyantja Palya: Waltja WAVE Women Leaders' project

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Minmaku Palyantja Palya Waltja WAVE Women
Leaders' project

• Desert Knowledge Symposium
• November 2008

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Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi

• Waltja is an incorporated not-for-profit
  community organisation governed by senior
  Aboriginal women from remote communities across
  Central Australia.
• Waltja works with these main language
  groupsWarlpiri, Luritja, Western Arrernte,
  Eastern Arrernte, Pintupi, Kaytej, Anmatyerre,
  Alyawarre and Pitjantjatjara.

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Where Waltja works
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Waltjas core operating principles

• The family is the foundation of the Aboriginal
  community and Indigenous identity
• Services need to be located within local
  communities, with training and support for local
  Aboriginal people to manage the services
• Partnership approach to support community
  development and self-determination

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Nintiringtjaku Painting People in the community
by Marie Briscoe

• Meeting and talking about things together
• Whitefella and Anangu families working together
  good way
• Respecting different ways and listening

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Minmaku Palyantja Palya

• Waltja Women Leaders' project
• In partnership with WAVE (Women in Adult and
  Vocational Education)
• Funded by Office for Women Womens Leadership
  Program

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Minmaku Palyantja Palya

• from Luritja langauage Value Women's Good Work
• Recognition of womens leadership in/for their
  remote communities
• Focus on early childhood and youth services
• Accreditation in Cert II Community Services Work

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Minmaku Project

• Nomination of women leaders, endorsement
• Community visits, profiles
• Participants nominate young women to mentor
• 3 day Workshop appreciation, accreditation,
  leadership stories, young women get media
  training and make film, Aboriginal women meet
  with WAVE women and share stories
• Evaluation and reporting

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Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi www.waltja.org.au