Yothu Yindi Foundation Aboriginal Corporation
Red Flag dancers on the Bunggul ground at the Garma Festival, Gulkula, North East Arnhem Land. Photo: Mark Rogers. © Yothu Yindi Foundation Garma Festival.
The nationally significant Northern Territory-based Yothu Yindi Foundation is a not-for-profit Indigenous charitable organisation with a set of cultural, social, educational and economic programs with real, practical outcomes.
Key projects include the annual Garma Festival (Australia's
leading cultural exchange event and venue for a key educational forum); a cultural induction program for non-Indigenous workers in Nhulunbuy; an Indigenous recording project; training and employment programs; and aground-breaking respite and rehabilitation centre, The Healing Place. Themission of the Yothu Yindi Foundation is for Yolngu and other Indigenous Australians to have the same level of wellbeing, life opportunities and choices as non-Indigenous Australians.
The Yothu Yindi Foundation is a key organisation of the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts board.