Our Mission

Aboriginal Australians are the most disadvantaged group in Australia. Alcohol and drugs contribute to entrenched social problems including “violence, social disorder, family breakdown, child neglect, loss of income, incarceration” (Dudgeon 2014).

Suicide rates among Indigenous people in the Kimberley are among the highest in the world (WHO, 2014). Aboriginal people in the Kimberley experience high unemployment and almost no self-employment.

Enterprise in remote communities contributes to health and wellbeing by engagement in meaningful occupations and by fostering connection to culture and country. Strong cultural identity is fundamental to Indigenous health and social and emotional wellbeing, and connection to culture is evidenced as being preventative of suicide (Chandler, 2008)

Research indicates that when women entrepreneurs are successful, it helps families, community and local/regional economies. In emerging markets, women reinvest a stunning 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in ‘human resources’: their families’ education, health, and nutrition (VanderBrug, 2013). Woman entrepreneurs act as ‘changemakers’
in their families and community, and inspire others to become self-reliant and take up entrepreneurship (Shan & Saurabh, 2015).

Microenterprise development schemes promote gender equality by empowering women and strengthening their economic position; these programs have been found to prevent violence against women (WHO, 2009).

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