Indigenous Community Volunteers

I am just a city slicker really. Well, until I volunteered with ICV.

My most recent project is assisting Walgett Aboriginal Medical Services (WAMS) with their Silver Jubilee in April 2011.

Who said it was scary to fly on small planes? For someone who has had to have hypnotherapy to fly. I do love small planes.

Each time I visit Walgett in NSW it involves a plane to Dubbo then a small plane to Walgett.

This is my third trip and the landscape is amazing especially with the flooded water below. It continues to amaze me how indigenous artists have the vision of this aerial landscape without even having flown over it.

WAMS is turning 25 in April. ICV has been involved with WAMS through 3 projects.

It is the memories of the places visited and the opportunity to be invited into communities some of which I could never have visited and some of the wonderful people I have met, that continues to inspire me.

My projects are usually event based and I am so lucky to be able to do these with Les.

We have assisted the following - an artist in Yirrikala NE Arnhem Land NT – Murrin Bridge Mission NSW – the Pukatja Sports Carnival SA, – Mungalla Station near Townsville QLD with a Kup Murri Cook Off – a Healing Gathering in Townsville QLD – Poruma Is Torres Strait National Dance Tour and still to happen, the Silver Jubilee for Walgett Aboriginal Medical Services NSW.

Who knows which Community our next project will be with?

Sydney resident Bev Brandon, along with her husband Les has been involved as Indigenous Community Volunteers on seven projects since 2006.