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We just had to share some wins from a few of our amazing initiatives

Tjanima Tjukurpa Winner of Children’s & Young Adult Book at the Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards 2022
“This book means a lot to us wati because when we were writing it, we didn’t know what we was getting into. But look we knew it was a story about one young fella who got healed with his grandfather. At the end of the day it makes us watis so proud and the NPY Woman’s Council and the Uti Kulintjaku team because we won something and that’s good. And it was good to write in our own language, in Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra. There’s three languages in there and you know its good for Anangu to write books and to see how Piranpa write books because its not easy. It wasn’t easy, wiya! But we are so happy, palya.” Robert Hoosan (pictured)

Tjanpi Desert Weavers animation Tangki (Donkey) wins Sydney Film Festival AFTRS Craft Award and the Yoram Gross Animation Award
Tangki is a story the introduction of donkeys to the desert community of Pukatja and the special vond that has formed between Anangu and tangkis.

The animation was a collaboration between Tjanpi artists, Imuna Kenta and Elizabeth Dunn supported by Creative Emma Franklin and Co-Director Jonathan Daw. Picutred below.

This film was supported by the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages and the Arts program.

Therapeutic support for Anangu child with a disability in Alice Springs is not a “family holiday”

Supporting families caring for people with a disability produces the greatest quality of care. In remote areas where there are little to no specialised services, families step in to the bulk of caring for people with a disability with limited respite.

Speaking at the Disability Royal Commission NPY Women’s Council shared many stories of the extra hardship people with a disability living in remote areas face. Lack of access to therapeutic support & basic disability support services coupled with language and cultural barriers prevent engagement with NDIS plans.

NPYWC told the story of a child with a disability from the NPY Lands needing to access important early intervention therapeutic support in Alice Springs. Due to a range of serious family hardships including domestic violence and overcrowding, the child’s key carer requested that family members (siblings) come with her and the child to Alice Springs for her treatment.
Senior NDIS staff stated they could not support “family holidays”.

NDIS plans focus on the individual and fail to consider the families struggling to support people with a disability, often experiencing extreme financial hardship & with little access to services in their communities. Supporting Anangu families gives people living with a disability out bush the best chance for support.

Read our submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of people with Disability (an updated statement will be available soon).

Find out about Tjungu our Aged & Disability program