We are a small, innovative and independent community development organisation based in Australia. Community led and volunteer based, we look at development differently – we commit ourselves to long term respectful partnerships and use an approach which values community ownership, sustainability, transparency and equity.
In May 2017, we had the privilege of cohosting a visit to Australia by Dr Sima Samar, the Chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, Nobel Prize nominee and first Afghan Minister for Women. Watch this video of indigo foundation Chair Sally Stevenson in conversation with Dr Samar in Sydney.
JUNE APPEAL: Please donate before 30 June. Your donation will mean we can kick off a new partnership in Bougainville and ensure a Safe House for women facing facing violence stays open, build on our proven partnership to keep girls in school in Afghanistan school and scale up leadership and education initiatives led by and benefitting women and girls
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual Canberra and Sydney dinners in March 2019 and made the nights so warm and wonderful. In Sydney we celebrated 15 years of partnership in Afghanistan with the wonderful Verity Firth as our MC and Ali Reza Yunespour sharing his reflections. In Canberra, Virginia Haussegger and Alex Sloan were the MC’s with the mostest as 260 people brought their generosity to support our partnerships in Rwanda and South Sudan.
Nasima Rahmani, Director of our longterm partner in Kabul, the Women’s Empowerment Centre, was interviewed by Patricia Karvelas on ABC RN Drive program about the advances made – and threats looming – for women in Afghanistan.
Check out this video made by a group of young people at Club Rafiki about our partnership in Rwanda. The video is longer than the usual 45 second social media share but is a powerful look at the transformative programs Club Rafiki run and that we are proud to support – from the urban dance school, to sexual and reproductive health outreach, testing and counselling programs, to english language workshops and the ‘Our Girls’ program
