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!
Isn’t it a wonderful feeling when hard work pays off? We recently got some of the innovative and critical elements of our laundry design patented which was hard work but very satisfying.
The Remote Laundries Project team are celebrating! We’ve secured a significant partnership with NT PHN and we are very pleased.
“Its a simple project and so often, simple is best” said the Govenor-General about the Remote Laundries Project when he visited.
We needed to show the impact of the laundry on people’s lives and video is the best way to do that.
Sitting in Katherine in all its glory is our new laundry unit. Since the start of the Remote Laundries project in 2018 we’ve been talking about building more laundries and putting them around the NT, and we’re one step closer to achieving that with the new unit recently finished in Katherine. Supporting Katherine business Similar …
We are pleased to announce three laundries on Groote Eylandt with the first laundry to be launched in Angurugu in 2021. Bickerton Island and Umbakumba are also set to have new laundries before the end of 2022.
Getting new clothes in the Aboriginal community of Barunga in the Top End of the NT is tricky at the best of times, but with the COVID-19 ban on travel in and out of NT communities, it’s near impossible. This means if people who live in Barunga can’t get the clothes they need at the …
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Steve Smith, our CEO is calling on corporates to help us improve health in Aboriginal communities. Last week Steve was been back in the limelight talking on the ABC Darwin radio Drive program about our Remote Laundries project. There are a couple of reasons which prompted media interest. The first is that our public laundry …
our laundry turns one! Feb 28 marks the first year of the Remote Laundries pilot in Barunga. An ambitious project idea that was born at a Bagala Aboriginal Corporation board meeting back in 2018, the Remote Laundries project aims to improve health and provide jobs in community through washing. Simple in design, robust and easy …