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Indigenous Literacy Foundation
The ILF aims to raise literacy levels and improve the lives and opportunities of Indigenous children living in remote and isolated regions. This is done through the delivery of books and literacy resources, publishing and visits out to remote communities. In addition, the Foundation advocates to raise community awareness of Indigenous literacy issues.
Fred Hollows Foundation Indigenous Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults are six times more likely to go blind, but 94% of vision loss is preventable or treatable. The Fred Hollows Foundation in Australian focuses of education, screening and treatment to put an end to these alarming figures.
The purpose of the foundation is to close the education gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and provide pathways to a brighter future, by helping to broaden horizons and inspire Indigenous children to experience their full potential in school and beyond, by achieving their goals and dreams.
A Vocational Training and Employment Centre (VTEC) funded by the Australian government that connects Indigenous job seekers with guaranteed jobs and brings together the support services necessary to prepare job seekers for long term employment. The guarantee of a job before job-specific training starts is the key feature of VTECs, which are open to Indigenous job seekers and school leavers and prioritise highly disadvantaged Indigenous job seekers.
Caritas Australia First Australians
Caritas is a Catholic Agency for International Aid and Development that works through the principles and practice of community development, supporting people to help themselves out of poverty, hunger and injustice. It has 13 partner-led First Australian programs such as Red Dust Healing which is a cultural healing program, Tjanpi Desert Weavers which provides meaningful and culturally important work for women in remote areas, and the development of cultural enterprises.
Oxfam Australia Indigenous Australians
An independent international organisation that works across the areas of leadership and health, advocacy for policy and practice change, coalitions and campaigns, and active support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination and justice in the broader Australian community. These include Close the Gap which is Australia's largest campaign to improve Indigenous health equality, and ChangeCourse which is a program designed to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths and their communities.
Reconciliation Australia is an independent, national not-for-profit organisation promoting reconciliation by building relationships, respect and trust between the wider Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Their vision is for everyone to wake to a reconciles, just and equitable Australia, and their aim is to inspire and enable all Australians to contribute to reconciliation and break down stereotypes and discrimination.
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
NACCHO is the national peak body for Aboriginal health, and represents over 150 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) across the country on Aboriginal health and wellbeing issues. An ACCHS is a primary health care service initiated and operated by the local Aboriginal community to deliver holistic, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate health care to the community which controls it.
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR)
ANTaR is a national advocacy organisation dedicated specifically to the rights - and overcoming the disadvantage - of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This is achieved primarily through lobbying, public campaigns and advocacy. ANTaR is a non-government, not-for-profit, community-based organisation with a membership consisting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people and groups. ANTaR campaigns nationally on key issues relating to Indigenous rights.
Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF)
The AIEF is focused on empowering Indigenous children in financial need to build a brighter future for themselves and for the nation. AIEF provides scholarships which enable Indigenous students to attend some of Australia's leading schools and universities, as well as mentoring and career support to ensure students make a successful transition from school to further studies or employment, productive careers and fulfilling lives. AIEF is building a $140 million fund to educate 7,000 young Indigenous Australians.
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