Community members, staff and project participants came together last month to celebrate Mandurah's Winjan Aboriginal Corporation and Bridging the Gap's completion of a successful partnership.
For the last year, the organisations have been working in partnership to provide a group of young Aboriginal people with disability the opportunity to learn new skills, take advantage of internships, traineeships or employment opportunities provided by industry partners, develop social networks and make new friends.
The Moorditj Mia Mia program otherwise known as the 'Cubby House Project', saw the young people build 36 cubby houses with the support of Aboriginal mentors and qualified trainers.
Funded by a grant from the NDIS's Information Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) grant program, the participants developed the construction, design and planning skills needed to build the large and elaborate cubby houses.
Once each cubby house was completed it was gifted to a not-for-profit charity such as the Foster Care Association of WA and the Safe Woman, Safe Family Centre in Pinjarra.
Ranger Red Zoo were also gifted a cubby house, which made a great home for their goats and other organisations used them as prizes in fundraising activities.
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Bridging the Gap chief executive Tracey Davenport said she hoped the organisation could work with the Winjan Aboriginal Corporation again in the futuwi
"After such a successful partnership, Bridging the Gap and Winjan are investigating ways to continue working together," she said.
"Our involvement in the Containers for Change Scheme, and our new refund point located in Port Kennedy has the potential to provide meaningful training opportunities for Aboriginal community members in areas such as truck and forklift driving, customer service and administration."
