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KAPULULANGU WOMEN'S LAW
& CULTURE CENTRE
 
Kapululangu Women’s Law and Culture Centre was established by Balgo women elders to assist them in fulfilling their obligations as the Senior Law Women (ceremonial bosses), healers, providers and protectors for their families and peoples.
Kapululangu’s elders are among the last Aboriginal Australians to have been born in the desert before the arrival of Kartiya/non-Indigenous people in their ancestral countries. They are custodians of an immense wealth of stories, skills and cultural knowledge.
Kapululangu is a local Indigenous response to locally-identified problems using locally-initiated, culturally-based strategies. It was established by the Balgo women elders because they wanted to enjoy and to teach the cultural knowledge passed to them by their Old People and Ancestors.
The elders believe that connectedness with Tjukurrpa (the Universal Life Force/Dreaming)
through Ceremony, Country and Cultural Awakening
is an imperative in any attempt to protect their families from the
social problems impacting their peoples, particularly their young ones.
The peoples' own Law and Culture is the missing piece of the jigsaw.
Education, employment, housing, a strong administration, improved medical care
are all important but they are all bricks - without a strong foundtion the wall will fall down.
There can be no real and lasting improvement in remote Aboriginal communities without the strengthening of pride and dignity in the people's Aboriginality.
The elders want their young people to grow up strong and resilient,
proud of and knowledgeable in the ways of their people,
secure in their peoples' Law and Culture knowledge,
so that they can better cope with the changing world.
A peoples' own Law and Culture is the glue that holds life together.
The elders must be recentralised and honoured as cultural knowledge custodians,
the yearning of the young ones to know themselves must be fulfilled,
and they must be empowered to follow in the footprints of their ancestors.
The dances must be danced and the songs sung, the stories told,
the connections made with the land, and the cosmology experienced.
Only then can the deep trauma caused by decades of cultural colonialism be healed.
Only then will the people be strong again.
Strong for Law, Strong for Culture.
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"STRONG for Law,
STRONG for Culture"
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Kapululangu's Vision
is of
a vibrant and cohesive community which
honours its Elders,
protects its
Women and Children,
and
empowers all its residents to live fulfilling and productive lives immersed in respect for
self, kin, land and
Tjukurrpa/Dreaming
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Please Support the Kapululangu Women ................
$20 per month
= Cultural Resilience
= Economic Sustainability
= Indigenous Determination
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We are seeking women or men who want to support Kapululangu Women as their personal initiative to Closing the Gap.
By making monthly donations
of $10, $20 or $50 ...
you can assist the Kapululangu women
to achieve their goals of caring for their families through their Law and Culture.
This is an opportunity in a life-time
to assist Aboriginal people to
pass on their peoples' Law and Culture
to their young people.
You can assist the Kapululangu Women Elders
to contribute to the health and wellbeing
of their families
by arranging with your bank
to make a monthly payment
of $10, $20 ... or even $50 ... to:
Kapululangu Aboriginal Women's Association
Commonwealth Bank Kununurra
BSB 066 530
ACN: 10107707
Kapululangu is an Indigenous Corporation and a Public Benevolent Institute with Deductible Gift Recipient and Tax Concession Charitable Status. This means that
all donations $2 and over are tax-deductable.
ABN: 49137871641
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Contact Kapululangu
Kapululangu Aboriginal Women's Association
Private Mail Bag 308 Balgo
via Halls Creek,
Western Australia 6770 Australia
Ph: 0429422645
Email: kapululangu.women.centre@gmail.com
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