Our Mission
To establish, govern and develop the Yingadi (Come!) Learning and Keeping Place
A welcoming place to all interested peoples, a Place of Preservation of Culture, Heritage and Reconciliation – a Nurturing Centre of Education.
The purpose of Yingadi Learning and Keeping Place:
Assist in relieving the disadvantage and suffering experienced by Aboriginal people by being a holding place of cultural history and knowledge and understanding to be passed on to future generations, and by nurturing personal pride and individual self-determination by offering programmes to increase the skills of Aboriginal people;
Inform, through workshops and programmes, non-Aboriginal people of the continuing disadvantage experienced in the Aboriginal community;
Be an educational centre for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students;
Provide an opportunity for non-Aboriginal people to listen and learn of the history, the current issues, the continual struggle for recognition of identity and spiritual connection to land of Aboriginal peoples;
Host a continuing Reconciliation Fire, tended by Aboriginal people, that will hold the stories of the past and present, enabling those who experience and learn from the fire to ignite a future of greater understanding and reconciliation.
The Corporation currently has seven members, with four Directors appointed
(noting that under the Rules of the Corporation a majority of Directors must always be Aboriginal people)