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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 that 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;
- 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 surrounding a whole range of issues including the recognition of their traditional Madayin law, equitable access to information and education and consideration of Yolngu people’s rights and desires in relation to legislation; and
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 latest annual report in PDF format by clicking here.
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