Kowanyama locals have been learning, earning and working at the Men's Meeting Place Hub and Women's Meeting Place.
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Lavinia has gained confidence with Rise’s recent training in Darwin. She has stepped up to help while our operations manager is on leave and has also supported a new staff…
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We were lucky enough to have IDLU (Indigenous Driver Licensing Program) visit community last March assisting with ID and licencing barriers.
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Rise Ventures has been busy helping the community of Kowanyama during the tough times of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 virus. The team with the help of Supervisor Alvina Tent,…
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We had a great turn out for the recent White Card Training at the MPC (Multi Purpose Centre) in Kowanyama.
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A group of ladies recently attended the Kowanyama Food Handling Course. This course prepares the jobseekers for work readiness for when the Blue Café and Bakery re-open.
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Alistair is a 43-year-old local aboriginal Kowanyama resident. The Geographic isolation of Kowanyama and the amount of jobs and participants looking for those jobs is hard enough to deal with…
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Justin Lawrence, our Trade and Tool Supervisor, recently has had his hands full with supplying the community with sanitiser stations so that businesses can meet the hygiene standards required now.
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Roseshelle Kitchener is our well-deserved Kowanyama job seeker of the week! At the start of the week, being relatively new to the sewing activity, Roseshelle was quite scared of using…
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Keifer is 24 years old and for the past 17 years has sustained employment within the community more often than not. In 2010 Keifer was employed with VG Steel and…
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