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ARDS Projects
As a fee-for-service organisation ARDS is involved in numerous education based projects within north-east Arnhem Land, as well as in Darwin. These currently include the following areas:
- an information
service that provides up-to-date information on anything the
people want answers to
- a language service
centre providing language learning material and the
recording of academic Yolngu Matha (the language of the Yolngu
people). This will lead to the development of English to Yolngu Matha
dictionaries in the commerce, legal and health fields in the first
instance
- resource
development which includes producing written material and
website material to inform non-Yolngu people about Yolngu culture and
way of life, so these people will be better informed to work and
interact in a more culturally appropriate way
- patient health
educators based at Royal Darwin Hospital providing education
for Indigenous people on health issues affecting them
- a recording and
archiving service of the traditional academic
knowledge of the region, including all public song cycles
which cover history, law, commerce, conservation, land management,
religion and philosophy
- consultancies
to various Yolngu businesses and community government councils
- advocacy
services on behalf of Yolngu people on a whole range of
issues, including the recognition of traditional Madayin law,
equitable access to information and education, and consideration of
Yolngu people’s rights and desires in relation to legislation
- community development
workshops for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people covering subjects such as cultural awareness, community development, effective communication, community education and traditional law.
To ensure we provide a valuable community service to Indigenous people, ARDS also remains focused on:
- creating an accessible knowledge
centre for the preservation of intellectual capital for the Yolngu
clan nations
- the development of effective
cross-cultural and cross-language educational methodologies
- the development of effective
educational content material that can teach subjects concerning any
health issues, contemporary commerce and law issues
- improving economic, legal and
health literacy for the whole region, through face-to-face
education
- the training and deployment of
community educators, health educators and hospital educators for ARDS
and for health and education organisations in other regions throughout
Australia
- the development of effective media access to information concerning specialist topics in the people’s own language, including radio, e-classrooms and video production.
Information on projects is available in our 2004 annual report in PDF format by clicking here.
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