INTRODUCING 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.
The Kapululangu Women’s Law and Culture Centre ...
- is located in the small Aboriginal community of Balgo
- on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia
- one of Australia’s most remote women’s centres
- the only women’s centre in the Kutjungka/Tjurabalan region of the south-east Kimberley
- the only Law and Culture organization in Balgo, and
- a key provider of Aboriginal Law and Culture opportunities in the Kimberley
Kapululangu ...
- was established in 1999, but traces its history back to 1983 through two predecessor organsiations.
- is mandated by its founding women elders to revitalize Women’s Law
- and to care for Women and Community.
- It provides cultural activities and events to both old and young and all ages in between
- to women and men, girls and boys
- to the resdients of Balgo and to its neighbouring communities
- and to Indigenous and Non-Indigenous women from across the Kimberley and around Australia
Kapululangu's Law and Culture Activities include ...
Women's Law (Ceremony) Ground
Tjilimi Women's Law House (residential)
Women's Culture Shed Ritual Keeping Place
Yawulyu Women's Law Ceremonies
Tjarrtjurra Women's Healing Ceremonies
Community Corroborees
Kids Culture Classes
Trips to Country & Hunting
Young Women's Sleepover
Kukatja Language Classes
Women's Law Camps
Young Women's Culture Camps
Ceremonial Dreaming Track Journeys
Women's Culture Learning Camps
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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
X 1000
= Cultural Resilience
= Economic Sustainability
= Indigenous Determination
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We are seeking 1000 women or men who want to support Kapululangu Women as their personal initiative to Closing the Gap.
By making monthly donations of $10 or $20 you can assist the Kapululangu women to be able to achieve their goals of caring for their families.
Assist them to pass on their peoples' Law and Culture to women and young people.
Empower them to contribute to the health and wellbeing of their families
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Arrange 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
OR....
Get together with a group of your friends and join
Kapululangu's
500 x $500 Club
Kapululangu is looking for 500 individuals, groups, organisations and/or corporations to donate $500 to Kapululangu and to pledge to continue these payments annually for as many years as they can afford it. The aim is to give Kapululangu a secure future by guaranteeing an income which is not tied to the whims of the grant application round. Pledges are not binding. Payments can be made annually, quarterly or monthly.
 Click on the Kapululangu logo to download
"Kapululangu's 500 x $500 Club"
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WOMEN'S CULTURE CAMPS
Working or planning to work with Aboriginal people and organisations?
Want to learn how to relate better with Aboriginal people?
Want to celebrate Aboriginal people and their remarkable resilience?
Want to be part of the solution?
Then come to a Kapululangu Women's Culture Learning Camp and become educated in the Art of Tilitja (Culture Worker - a position of giving service).
See"Women's Camp" page.
Contact Kapululangu
Kapululangu Aboriginal Women's Association
Private Mail Bag 116 Balgo
via Halls Creek,
Western Australia 6770 Australia
Ph/Fax: 08-91688848
Email: admin@kapululangu.org
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