Publisher’s note: This dispatch is the second part of that published in this blog on 16 March 2013. (Here). it was first published in November 2012. (“Google Translate” will help with translations)
“ Another good news about Yuendumu.
Yuendumu School got 104 students !!!! Yes, Hundred and Four on 10th Oct Wednesday. Congrats everyone for this great effort. The school’s attendance rate was very low for a while but this is the changing scenario. Be positive !
Yes, we celebrated last month as green month and we are looking forward to make this month green too. Though it’s big challenge due to the community court and other stuffs but everyone from all camps have committed to make this month green.
Yesterday I had cause to go to Yuendumu School. At the front there is a double gate like a decompression chamber- designed to deny an education to Yuendumu’s dogs.
Parked outside the front fence were 11 late model four wheel drive vehicles (SUVs as they’re known overseas) worth in excess of half a million dollars. Attendance I’m told continues to be good. That is a ratio of approx. 9 students per vehicle.
The person in charge of the Yuendumu Mediation Centre (“Let’s work together to make Yuendumu a safer place”) is having a rest and is climbing Mt. Everest.
There are mountains in our way
but we climb the stairway every day
Love lifts us up where we belong
where the eagles cry on a mountain high….
Despite his absence Yuendumu has just experienced another green month! Unfortunately ITEC has failed to ‘Capacity Build’ Yuendumu in that no ‘Colouring-in Workshops’ were held, the October Peace Calendar thus remains blank.
Chau y adios,
Franklin
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