The Warlpiri Education And Training Trust Project

About Central Land Council

Question:

Write a detailed Summary of the Community Development project you have selected which explains: the background to this project and its aims; the context and Community it involves; the values which underpin the Project and the ways in which this Project Contributes to Social Justice through working with Community.

This particular study has provided an in-depth overview about various aspects of community development project that I have selected over here. In this very specific study, I have chosen The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project, an effective initiative taken by Central Land Council. By selecting this specific project, I have tried to highlight how Central Land Council focuses to promote the community development of those people by improving their life style, economic backgrounds and psychological beliefs. While dealing with this specific project I have faced innumerable challenges to collect relevant data and information regarding mission, vision and aim of aboriginal people.

Central Land Council is the representative body that is primarily governed by 90 Aboriginal people elected from communities in the southern half of the Northern Territory. The main objective of Central Land Council is to provide equal opportunities to the aboriginal people with the help of which they can show their skills and competency. Throughout Northern Territory, aboriginal people have occupied 417,000 square kilometers land (clc.org.au 2017). For that purpose, CLC has taken some of the major initiatives by implementing several community projects among which the name of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project (WETT) is most significant (clc.org.au 2017).   

This particular project aims to render a huge improvement in education and other extracurricular activities on four communities specifically that include Yuendumu, Lajamanu, Nyirripi and Willowra. O’Faircheallaigh (2013) stated that an aboriginal child has to face innumerable barriers while taking admission in a school due to racial discrimination. It has been observed that most of the people belonging to indigenous backgrounds do not have enough economic strength in continuing their studies (Chrismas 2012). However, the primary objective of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project is to take different kinds of initiatives with the help of which children from 6 to 22 years old can be involved in different educational activities (Owen and Kemp 2013).

The foundation diversionary activities revolve around various sports, art and craft, computers, music, bush trips and cooking. At the same time, of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project tends to initiate more additional activities such as workshop by using the popularity of media, workshop related to dance, singing, hair designing and so on. It is undeniable that large number of people belongs of aboriginal backgrounds. Therefore, the primary responsibility of society is to give equal priority and response to every individual. The primary objectives of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project are as follows:

• To engage young generation (between 6 to 22 age group of people) in various kinds of recreational and cultural activities by reducing their engagement on private firm
• To give those people a positive pathway of earning money in future

Overview of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project

In order to fulfill those activities, The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust employees have taken initiative in making an effective communication with those people. It is observed that parents belonging to aboriginal backgrounds have to face challenges in carrying the education cost of their children due to economic barriers. Flicker and Worthington (2012) ethics principles for research involving Aboriginal peoples in Canada (including First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples) have developed in response to criticisms from Aboriginal peoples over a historical sense of betrayal by researchers. In this kind of situation, those children do not get the scope to utilize their skills  and knowledge in a positive way. After the initiative of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project promoted by Central Land Council, the aboriginal children get a platform to show their skills and talents (Bennett et al. 2012). Ultimately, the community is getting developed day by day. People indigenous group as well got an opportunity for being an inseparable part of society.

After the initiation of this very specific project, around 117,000 aboriginal people belonging to the age group of 6 to 22 have started to strengthen their educational backgrounds. Harding et al. (2012) stated that only tribal nations themselves can identify potential adverse outcome. As a result, the number of child labor at the very specific time was increasing gradually. In order to control the entire scenario, of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project governed by CLC has been started. By making an effective campaign about the importance of education and career development the volunteers associated with this project have made effective face-to-face communication with the parents (Hill et al. 2012). After taking those particular initiatives, the children have showed their intense positive outlook for enhancing the educational backgrounds. As a result, people belonging to different geographical backgrounds and attitudes have changed their psychological beliefs and values. This very specific study has focused to make an in-depth overview on how The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project has left major positive impact on the overview development of community.

After the initiation of this project, the rate of education among the child of indigenous group has been increased. In addition, the aboriginal group of people have also involved within extracurricular activities as well. These particular activities made an individual courageous for developing their knowledge and skill. After the initiation of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project business organizations have got ample number of aboriginal employees within their business process. The number of diversity within the workplace has been raised automatically. On one hand, the human resource managers prefer to select diverse people at the workplace. On the other hand, indigenous group of people have the opportunity of showing their skills and talents by involving within business process (Lahn 2012). In addition, in showing different extracurricular activities those people have achieved social image and recognition. However, The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project plays the primary responsibility on exposing the latent skills and competency of indigenous group of people.

Objectives of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project

While dealing with the project I have interacted with the aboriginal people of Australia for knowing their aims and vision of life. Enhancing knowledge with the help of educational platform is the mission of aboriginal people as well. After collecting effective data from the concerned people, I got to know that economy is one of the most significant reason due to which those people do not maintain their higher education process for a long time.  Different eminent scholars have provided their own opinion regarding the importance of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project promoted by CLC. As per the opinion of different eminent scholars, CLC could have taken initiatives more effectively for promoting indigenous group of people.  The volunteers associated with this very specific project had to face innumerable difficulties in communicating with indigenous children. People belonging to different geographical backgrounds and attitudes do not have language flexibility based on which they can communicate with the volunteers. In this kind of situation, the employees associated with this project have to adopt non-verbal communication method as well. With the help of non-verbal communication method, the employees tend to express their views through body language, written form or any other way. Sometimes, the volunteers fail to express their own point of view to the target group due to in-flexibility on non-verbal communication (Demaio, Drysdale and Courten 2012).

However, Parker and Milroy (2014) has differed the opinion of previous scholar. As per the point of view of this very specific scholar, it is undeniable that non-verbal communication is significant for interacting with an individual who is not comfortable in verbal communication (Owen and Kemp 2013). In order to overcome language barrier CLC associates have decided to give basis training on communication skill to the aboriginal children. As a result, the volunteers do not have to face challenges in maintaining effective communication.

O’Faircheallaigh (2013) opined that The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project has not become successful in community development. At the same time, this very specific project has left major positive impact on the society as well. Large number of business organizations is there which initially refused to hire aboriginal people within the organization even if they are eligible for the concerned designation. After taking that initiative CLC have implemented training and education process for enhancing the knowledge and skill of those people. As a result, business organizations have showed their interest in communicating with the persons who belong to indigenous group of people (Jackson et al. 2012). As a result, a particular workplace is endowed with diversity as well as different cultural backgrounds. This very specific study has provided detailed overview on how business organizations belonging to various geographical boundaries have concentrated on the skills and talents of the employees rather than focusing on the religious and cultural backgrounds.

Impact of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project on community development

However, Maracle (2013) stated that the project heads of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust at a time had faced innumerable difficulties in continuing the activities within territory effectively due to low budget cost. In order to initiate training on communication skill, education system among the children and different extracurricular activities based on aboriginal people can develop their knowledge and skill the project heads need to have economic strength based on which the plans can be implemented in a proper way. However, numerous eminent scholars have highly appreciated the initiatives taken on behalf of CLC. In order to make the entire project successful CLC had to recruit large workforces for keeping the entire process of work within control. Around 200 volunteers are inseparably associated with The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project.

Preston et al. (2012) opined that developing the community does not mean imposing the decision of project authority on the community people. With the help of an effective participative leadership skill, the community developers have to deal with the concerned people. This very specific study has focused to make an in-depth evaluation on how the community developers have to focus on some of the major ethics, principles and values for dealing with the community people (Campbell and Hunt 2012). The primary principles and ethical considerations that the community developers have to follow in running the project are as follows:

The responsibility of community developers is not to develop the skill and competency of community people merely. The project executives have to show their liberal attitudes towards the community so that they like to co-operate in a version of change and development within the society. Community development workers should never impose their own decision on the people. With the help of participative decision making process, the representatives of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project managers should make an effective collective decision by involving indigenous Australian. The workers before implementing training and development plan on indigenous Australia should collect the decision of participants as well whether they are willing to attend the training session or not.  As a result, both the society people as well as the project representatives will be able to involve within the project equally (Kothari, Camill and Brown 2013).

Community developers of CLC fail to maintain the integrity and equal flow of services due to economic constraints (clc.org.au 2017). After the implementation of Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project, the project representatives started to convince the parents of aboriginal people for allowing their children in strengthening their educational background. However, it has been observed that after continuing the project for few months the project managers had to face innumerable challenges for continuing the training session due to economic constraints (Chrismas 2012). As a result, the learners did not get proper services from CLC. The role of an efficient community should be maintaining a harmony on their services. As a result, both the service providers and services users would be equally benefited in enhancing their knowledge and skill.

Challenges for The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project

The community developers should never show their biased attitudes towards an individual within the society. This kind of approach makes a major negative impact on the overall project development of society. The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project primarily aims to draw the attention of aboriginal people for developing their skills and educational backgrounds with the help of which those people can live a social life. Therefore, the project executives associated with CLC intend to treat every social people with equal respect and dignity. As a result, the entire community gets equal scope to enhance their mental skill and ability.

Community developers should increase the ability of an individual in order to make a person self-confident and strong for achieving the social recognition. It has been observed that aboriginal people belonging to southern half of the Northern Territory tend to live unhealthy life being deprived of the society (Nadew 2012). However, in this situation the role of a community developer is to provide support and co-operation to members so that those people can gain the level of confidence for leading a healthy life. The project called Warlpiri Education and Training Trust promoted by CLC primarily aimed to deal with the project in such a way that the children belonging to aboriginal group can improve their lifestyle and economic background by   receiving training and development session for enhancing their education. The project managers aim to raise confidence on those people so that aboriginal people get the opportunity in showing their talents. Lack of confidence is one of the most effective factors due to which people belonging to aboriginal backgrounds fail to show their skills and talents. Therefore, the primary principle of community developer is to gain confidence on those people so that children show enthusiastic attitude in increasing their knowledge and education. Their children can lead more healthy and systematic life after endowed with education, wisdom and knowledge (Chrismas 2012). Therefore, the community developer should assure the people about essence of education.

After making an in-depth overview about the role of community developer it can be stated that the project associates of Warlpiri Education and Training Trust have not followed some of the major principles for enhancing knowledge and skills on the mind of aboriginal people. The representatives due to the lack of proper budget fail to spread equal education system on the four territories in a rhythmic way. As a result, large number of aboriginal people got deprived of receiving effective training from Warlpiri Education and Training Trust employees. This particular fact has left negative impact in enhancing the image and recognition of CLC. In addition, it has also been observed that due to budget constraints the project associates fail to maintain service harmony among the community people (Kothari, Camill and Brown 2013). At the initial stage, the business experts implemented innumerable additional cultural activities within the community that highly influenced aboriginals for coming back to the flow of society. However, due to the lack of sufficient economy the project managers failed to continue the services in an effective way. This fact left highly negative impact in enhancing the entire recognition of Central Land Council.

Role of non-verbal communication in the success of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project

Conclusion:

Community development is one of the integral responsibilities that nonprofit organizations have to play for enhancing horizon of society and social people. Aboriginal people belonging to different communities are deprived of being accepted on the various business organizations due to lack of their skills and education. Especially children belonging to aboriginal backgrounds have to be associated within the private firm in order to support their parents. In this kind of situation, those children have to face innumerable difficulties in maintaining their education system.

This specific study has focused to evaluate on how community development projects leave positive impact in improving the society. The impact of The Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Project on developing the mental skill and ability of aboriginal people has been discussed in this very specific study. While continuing the entire project CLC has faced innumerable challenges in communicating with the aboriginal people. The major barriers that the volunteers have faced in dealing with the parents of aboriginal children include psychological barrier, linguistic barrier, cultural barrier and barrier related to racism. In order to overcome those challenges the project managers have implemented training and development process for enhancing the skill and competency level of the aboriginal people.

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