Ntaria’s Young Women Celebrate International Women’s Day
The Young Women’s Room in Ntaria strives to educate, upskill, and empower the young women every day by providing a safe space on the school grounds for Western Arrernte girls and women. The room is open Monday to Friday 8am-4pm to provide a space where girls and women...
The 2022 wrap up!
Demian Coates (CEO Wanta Aboriginal Corporation) What another incredible year, despite significant challenges faced throughout the Northern Territory and Australia, Wanta has continued to provide quality programs. Wanta has gone from strength to strength, and this...
Big Thank You To Our Donors
Working in some of the most remote areas of Australia comes with unique challenges, one of the main challenges can be modes of transport to effectively coordinate all our programs. In remote communities’ transportation can be the blood line of all services and Wanta...
Lajamanu take out the 2022 Wanta Cup!
The Wanta cup is an annual event made up of different sporting events, games and challenges. This exciting and light-hearted event is something that each community marks on their calendar as one of their favourite trips for the whole year. The cup is something...
Our Lajamanu students canoe the Ord River!
During the term holidays, we took some of the Lajamanu students on an interstate trip to Kununurra, WA. The idea and motivation behind this trip was to provide outdoor education that encouraged skill building, resilience, endurance, nutrition, a positive outlook on...
Wanta partners with Tennis NT
To celebrate the recently established, exciting three-year partnership between Tennis NT and Wanta, Tennis NT legends, Beth (Inclusion and Diversity Manager) and Anzac (Indigenous Program Lead), Sharon (Australia Tennis Foundation manager), and their film crew were...
2022 Wanta PD
The 2022 annual Wanta PD took place in Darwin last month, with staff from all of our nine communities attending the event. The PD began with a Welcome to Larrakia Country from Wanta’s Chairperson of the Board Elizabeth Lechleitner. This year’s PD focused on capacity...
Our footy trip – we met the Demons!
Wanta’s Central desert Academies finished the bush holidays with bang! Joining with Yipirinya school and Melbourne Football Club, footy was the theme for the trip! The Wanta Papunya, Arlparra and Ntaria groups all joined together in Alice Springs to fine tune some...
Our ‘Big Sister’ Program in Gunbalanya
The Wanta Girls Academy in Gunbalanya has recently started a 'Big Sister' Program with the local Childhood and Family Centre (CFC). Every Monday and Wednesday morning before school, some of the senior girls head over to the CFC and spend some time playing with the...
Wanta Social Enterprise update!
Some of our communities have been working so hard on their social enterprise projects! Here’s a little snapshot of what's been happening this term before our students enjoy a very well-earned break. The students at Bagai Barista in Ngukurr have done amazing things...