Please join us for the official launch of Noah's Ark 2023-2024 Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

Dja Dja Wurrung Traditional Owners will share culture through a Welcome to Country, Smoking Ceremony and Didgeridoo performance.

Our RAP reflects our commitment to building stronger relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Communities and Organisations and providing respectful, responsive and culturally relevant services. It is important to us that we are a good ally for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and to promote cultural awareness in our words and actions at all times.

The Noah's Ark RAP team will be available to discuss our RAP with families, staff and all interested individuals and organisations.

Family activities will be available and children are welcome to join us in a bush tucker planting session.

Morning tea and hot drinks from a coffee van will be provided. If you have any specific dietary needs please feel welcome to bring your own snack.

Noah's Ark families, board members, executive and staff, as well as interested community are welcome to join us for this celebration.

Please contact Michele Totterdell for any enquiries via phone 0433884052 or email the RAP team RAP@noahsarkinc.org.au

The artwork featured on this page was created by Kara Napangardi Ross.

Artwork: This Jukurrpa belongs to men and women of the Jangala/Nangala and Jampijinpa/Nampijinpa subsections. Pamapardu is the Warlpiri name for the "ﬂying ants" or termites that build the large termite mounds (Mingkirri), found throughout Warlpiri country. After rains the ants emerge from their nests to ﬂy to a new home. They subsequently discard their wings when they ﬁnd and enter a new mound. The Jukurrpa depicted in this painting shows the journey taken by an ancestral Pamapardu man called Wirliyapirda from country near Utopia to a site known as Warntungurru near to Nyirrpi to the southwest of Yuendumu. In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other elements and short bars are often used to represent the Pamapardu's wings and concentric circles represent the Mingkirri mounds. Termites are eaten by goannas and other lizards and by Yapa (Warlpiri people) Women collect them to eat by hitting the Mingkirri with digging sticks and also by collecting the wingless Pamapardu that fall to the ground outside of the Minkirri.