Our Remote Laundries project was privileged to join forces with the National Heart Foundation of Australia at the Barunga Festival this year to share knowledge about skin health for heart health.
Watch the impactful video from the festival.
At this year’s Barunga Festival, the Laundry provided a health promotion hub as we joined forces with our partner, the National Heart Foundation of Australia. Together we shared knowledge about the importance of skin health for heart health.
Opened in 2019, the Barunga laundry was the Remote Laundries pilot program. Four years later, the community cannot imagine life without it.
Tom Hutton, Griff Loughnan & Zac Haines raised over $35k for the project through sponsorship to run the 140km Larapinta Run ultra marathon. LEGENDS!!
In 2019 the first Remote Laundries project laundry was installed in the remote Aboriginal community of Barunga in the NT and cases of scabies have been falling ever since. The data from 2021 shows a 60% drop in the number of cases, and we’re thrilled to see proof our laundries are working!
“Its a simple project and so often, simple is best” said the Govenor-General about the Remote Laundries Project when he visited.
We want to know the value of our laundries, not just the social returns but the monetary value, and we have a model that shows they are incredible value for money.
Terrible diseases that have serious impact on the lives and health of people in the entire community start with this pesky mite.
We needed to show the impact of the laundry on people’s lives and video is the best way to do that.
In the Aboriginal community of Barunga, decisions that affect the whole community are made by its leaders. The Remote Laundries project started in a Bagala Aboriginal Corporation meeting with community leaders in early 2018. The group was looking for ways to boost the local economy and met to decide which business ideas would work best …