Homeland School Company

Delivering full-time education to children in remote homelands of the Djelk IPA

Homeland School Company (HSC)

Homeland School Company (HSC) was established by Traditional Owners of the Djelk Indigenous Protected Area to deliver full-time two-way education to children and young people living on homelands. Currently, these communities only have access to inconsistent, fly-in-fly-out state education. The HSC is addressing this inequity by following the successful blueprint of the Nawarddeken Academy and initially opening bi-cultural primary schools at three outstations.

Learning from the success of the Nawarddeken Academy, the aspiration of community members in Djelk is for their new Homeland School Company to deliver on their vision for the future of their Country, culture and communities, with full-time education at remote homelands.

At present, students are unable to live on and learn about their homelands, which has led to families moving between their homeland communities and the township of Maningrida to access consistent education. This company intends to resolve this issue through establishing bi-cultural independent schools at key homelands across the IPA.

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