Weekly Times, 7 February 2011

AN innovative program to offer educational opportunities to indigenous children has found a home.

The program, at Methodist Ladies’ College in Kew, saw MLC make an arrangement with Yalari, a Queensland not-for-profit company, since 2007 to offer two boarding scholarships for indigenous students to enter at Year 7.

Yalari, based at Oxenford, near Southport, was established in 2005 to strive for long-term generational change for indigenous people.

It gives children from regional, rural and remote communities and towns across Australia the chance of a first-class education through full boarding scholarships at high-achieving boarding schools.

Yalari is a word from the Birri Gubba language group meaning “child”.

The company was founded by indigenous educator Waverley Stanley and his wife, Llew Mullins, after his own experience as a boarder at Toowoomba Grammar School more than 20 years ago.

It now supports 167 children around Australia enrolled at 34 partnership schools in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.

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