How you can help

Girls from Oz Inc is an organisation with a big future and we need your help.  It’s all about providing activities that will expand life experiences, create connections, encourage growth in confidence and increase opportunities for the many thousands of young people who have limited access to high quality education.

Our experience has shown that young people develop a strong sense of self-esteem, discipline and confidence as a direct result of singing, dancing, playing and performing with others – benefits that are then applied in their everyday lives in the community.

We have confirmed funding to begin working with young people in the East Kimberley region; we will initially connect with teenage indigenous girls who are disengaged from their schools and lack opportunities to explore life outside of Halls Creek.  We have a dream that we can make a positive difference to the lives of many young people but in this instance we are aiming for a concentrated program that will see us work specifically with young women who currently live in a community that is burdened by multi generational welfare dependence, alcohol and drug abuse, and violence. The elder women of the area are concerned about their girls, they have an aim to “grow ’em up strong”.  We plan to help them.

Our first financial aim is to involve selected participants in the Halls Creek program in the AGC's end of year performances at the Opera House in Sydney and/or Hamer Hall in Melbourne. Girls from Oz will facilitate the development of the young women's own networks and hopefully create very positive experiences for them; mentoring and role modelling will be at the centre of this whole plan.