Homelands CDP

Goŋ-Ḏäl Aboriginal Corporation is the CDP Activities Provider
for the Homelands around Gapuwiyak.

Since 2019, Goŋ-Ḏäl Aboriginal Corporation has been sub-contracted by ALPA to provide CDP Activities in the homelands around Gapuwiyak, including the homelands of Balma, Baygurrtji, Bunhaŋura, Dhamiyaka, Dhupuwamirri, Donydji, Raymangirr and Yalakun. The focus of our Gapuwiyak Homelands CDP is Homelands community, enterprise, and skill development, and work-readiness.

In 2023 and 2024, we are partnering with ALPA in the Trial CDP Pathways to Jobs initiative with our Homelands CDP Pathways To Real Jobs On-Country program to create opportunities for CDP participants to engage in ranger work.

Our CDP Team and CDP-funded trainee Mutjung Rangers often work and undertake training together so we can share resources, experience, knowledge and skills, and increase our labour pool to tackle big jobs.

CDP ACTIVITES IN HOMELANDS

We work with leaders, CDP participant and residents of each Homeland to design, plan and implement CDP activities that help people to live well in their Homelands and support their aspirations. Within this context, we support individual participants to develop their skills and capacity for employment, as well as general life-skills.

Most of our homelands roads are very degraded, which is making it very difficult for people to live safely in their homelands. Roads are in such poor condition that driving on them is destroying vehicles, while during the wet season most homelands are cut-off and inaccessible.

This is forcing Homeland’s residents to live in Gapuwiyak with family members, which creates over-crowding and exposes families to many negative influences and social issues that they are endeavouring to avoid by living in their Homelands.

We continue to provide CDP activities for Homeland participants who are forced to relocate to Gapuwiyak that include helping them to visit, check and maintain their homelands.

ACTIVITIES

Our CDP activities include:

Homeland community maintenance, cleaning and rubbish runs
Ranger-readiness activities
Building and maintaining community gardens
Homelands roads repair and maintenance
Life-skills development e.g. how to use MyGov, support with Centrelink and ALPA reporting, cooking, hygiene (cleaning toilets and bathrooms)
Support for cultural activities e.g. hunting and collecting bush foods, collecting pandanus and dyes, making shelters and ceremony support
Accredited and unaccredited training opportunities in Gapuwiyak and Homelands e.g. White Card, Chainsaw; First Aid; Drive-safe; media training e.g. taking and making videos; providing PPE and WHS training; welding and furniture making from recycled materials.

CDP activity planning with leaders and CDP participants in Donydji and Bunhaŋura homelands. Team leaders maintaining our equipment.

Chainsaw training, building ceremonial shelters in Raymangirr and furniture from palettes.

PATHWAYS TO JOBS: ON-COUNTRY PROGRAM

Indigenous rangers is one of the main employment opportunities for Yolŋu people living in their homelands.

This highly successful program is enabling us to convert some CDP funding into a wage-subsidy that enables us to employ 12 casual part-time trainee men and women rangers in our Mutjung Rangers program.

Mutjung Rangers support our CDP Homelands program where work areas overlap.

See the Mutjung Rangers page for more details about Mutjung Rangers work.