Indigenous Australia

  1. Participants in World Vision’s Young Mob Leadership Program gain cultural knowledge and skills to lead and inspire their Indigenous peers.
  2. Our Warlpiri Early Childhood Care and Development Project aims to improve the health and wellbeing of young children in four remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.
  3. Natural dyed silk by Susie Peterson from the World Vision-supported Epenarra Artists in the Northern Territory.
  4. The Mapoon Home Ownership Project partners with the far north Queensland Indigenous community of Mapoon to achieve affordable home ownership for families. Photo credit: Brian Cassey

We create strong partnerships to see kids growing up happy, healthy and strong in thriving Indigenous Australian communities. We work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities who have invited us to join them in achieving positive and lasting change.

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What is this about?

Strong partnerships, strong community voices and local solutions for local needs – empowering people to run the programs that they want to see – creating a brighter future for their children.

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Why do we do this work?

It is hard to imagine why some of the disadvantages faced by many Indigenous Australians exist in a country as prosperous as Australia.

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Where do we work?

We work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in rural, remote and urban Australia. We work with communities who have invited us to join them in achieving positive and lasting change.

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What is our response?

To create a brighter future and transform the lives of Indigenous Australian children needs all members of community to have their say and be involved. Listening, collaborating, sharing knowledge and working together to find local solutions for local needs is part of our response.

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How you can help?

Support Indigenous communities who are developing and strengthening children and families to grow up happy, healthy and strong. Become a Linking Hands supporter today.

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sarah
Sep 06, 2012

"i love youxxx you guys are helping everyone KEEP IT UP!!! :)"

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clarinda
Sep 06, 2012

"i think you are doing a great job i strongly beleive you are helping more people ever day thanks for all your help :)"

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Trimble
Aug 29, 2012

"Well done with the work you are doing. People do not know the struggles Indigenous Australians go through and it is much appreciated that you are helping them. Than..."

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Aug 29, 2012

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