Celebrating NAIDOC Week
Head Start Homes is proud to be celebrating NAIDOC Week (July 2 -9).
Fran Dobbie, a proud Yuin Elder and Director of Earth Star Productions, joined us to share her thoughts with the team about what the NAIDOC week theme of “For Our Elders” means to her.
Fran is a teacher, author and filmmaker whose company presents awareness and inner strength through the medium of film, television and interactive leadership and cultural awareness workshops.
“It is important to listen to our Elders, not because they are always right but because they have more experience at being wrong,” said Fran.
“They have watched, learnt and listened - and it is from the experience of looking behind that enables one to move forward with insight, wealth and wisdom.”
At HSH, we are working towards breaking the cycle of disadvantage by increasing equal access to home ownership for First Nations People.
Of the eight households we have supported to achieve home ownership, seven are First Nations families.
We encourage you to celebrate NAIDOC week and honour your Elders this week.
As the NAIDOC organisation says:
“Across every generation, our Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role and hold a prominent place in our communities and families.
“They are cultural knowledge holders, trailblazers, nurturers, advocates, teachers, survivors, leaders, hard workers and our loved ones.
“We pay our respects to the Elders we’ve lost and to those who continue fighting for us across all our Nations and we pay homage to them.”
About Head Start Homes
With our vision for a safe and stable home for everyone with fair and practical pathways to home ownership, Head Start Homes is advancing a more equitable home ownership system by disrupting homelessness, intergenerational poverty and cycles of disadvantage.
We achieve this by providing innovative products and services that empower our clients to achieve their home ownership dreams and exit rental accommodation. To be eligible, clients must meet income thresholds or live in social or affordable housing. Most of our clients are single mums, First Nations Peoples or households with a disability.
With the support of more than 100 businesses, government agencies and charities, we foster innovation and collaboration to achieve our vision. We are accredited as a not-for-profit, tax-exempt community service organisation..
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