WAMINDA - You need to meet these fantastic women

Its about time you met Waminda - based on the South Coast for over 30 years they are an Aboriginal womens helath and welface organisation. Deeply respected by many for the fantastic work they do across so many spheres. Last week I experience one of the cultural immersion days that they offer and it was deeply impactful and I highly recommend this day for all who want to be better allies. One of the programs that Waminda are working hard to get funding and a home for right now is the Birthing on Country Program, which supports Aboriginal women through the process of pregnancy, birth and early years , thorugh a wholistic and wrap around service point of view. Waminda have worked hard at this program where it has been recognised as a high standard model of care for women. Dont take my word for it though, go see for your self at the Waminda website. During the recent federal election it was great to see that there were pledges of financial support for Waminda's program and the clock is ticking to find some land or a building to repupose for the birthing and services home. I brought to council a Mayoral Minute pledging support for the project to allow for our startegic planning staff to work with Waminda to try and find land and to reach out to landholders jointly to see if we can push for a better outcome. One such landholder in Nowra is Woolworths of Fabcott Pty Ltd who own a number of useful parcels of land, which have been landbanked for no real puprose for many years now. Whats seriously annoying is that Fabcott dont reply to our letters asking for their consideration for a sale. So that makes me wonder - which supperannuation companies, what locals, or any other investor live in the Shoalhaven and would be prepared to contact them and get them to understand that instead of making grand statements they can actually do something ral and sell their land for a grand purpose. Please check out Wamindas webiste