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Subject: LL:DDV: Kapululangu Fundraiser
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:25:08 +1000
From: "Chris Sitka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A fundraiser for Kapululangu Aboriginal Women's Association will be held
at
Ceres Environmental Farm 8 Lee St. Brunswick East (Melbourne) from 6pm
on
Saturday 11th December 1999
There will be musical performances and you can purchase and eat your
dinner
from the cafe. Please mark this date in your diary now and let all your
friends know.
Further info below or contact Chris Sitka 9482 6420 or Sonja 9416 8214
KAPULULANGU
AUSTRALIA'S MOST ISOLATED
ABORIGINAL WOMEN'S CULTURAL CENTRE
SEEKS YOUR ASSISTANCE TO PROTECT AND MAINTAIN
WOMEN'S SACRED YAWULYU - TRADITIONAL CULTURE.
Kapululangu Aboriginal Women's Association has established a women's
cultural centre in Wirrimanu (Balgo) Aboriginal Community, on the edge
of
Australia's isolated Western Desert in the East Kimberley Region.
The senior Law women of Kapululangu Aboriginal Women's Association are
custodians of traditional women's lore that needs to be sustained,
protected
and maintained.
There is a lot of energy in Wirrimanu these days around taking care of
women's culture. The women have organised themselves as an incorporated
cultural organisation. They have recently begun to renovate an old
shed(built in 1989) and are using it now as a cultural centre, tjilimi
("single" women's house), and a safehouse for women escaping or avoiding
domestic violence. They have built a keeping shed for their ceremonial
equipment, a kitchen to support those living at the centre,and are in
the
process of establishing an office.
Lack of adequate funding and resources however is undermining that
strength.
Wirrimanu women are inviting you to join with them in a partnership to
take
care of their sacred yawulyu - a treasure that is important not only to
them
but to all global citizens that respect the
indigenous cultures.
They are in most urgent need of a vehicle as a means to enable them to
access their ancestral country for ceremonial purposes, to practice
their
cultural and religious beliefs, to keep the Tjukurrpa (or Dreaming)
alive;
to pass their wisdom onto the younger generations,and
to gather foods to improve their health.
A vehicle would allow the women to:
· perform their ceremonial and ritual responsibilities
· gather bush foods thus improving their health
· document women's religious and spiritual culture, safe-keeping it for
future generations
· gather natural resources for production of baskets and other items for
sale bringing in a small income
· enable them to teach their younger women in cultural practices
· and many more activities necessary to maintaining a strong, vibrant
society.
They need to have a vehicle that is capable of carrying them safely into
some of Australia's most isolated and difficult desert regions.
This car will cost $A30,000 to buy and a further $10,000 to maintain and
run
for one year. This is a total of $40,000 Raising funds for buying the
vehicle is the biggest problem facing the women despite it being their
most
urgent need.
The Ceres fundraiser is being organised to help raise these funds. If
you
want to help come along or send a donation. The evening will be a fun
time
combining music with political committment to the Kapululangu women.
For more information on KAWA see website:
<http://www.pasifika.net/pacific-action/kapululangu.html>
LL.VL
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