Project Description Region: Other Country: Australia Location: Aukukan Total Budget: $39,499 Area of Focus: Peacebuilding and conflict prevention Aurukun, Australia is an aboriginal community located in far north Queensland that has experienced years of tribal fighting which turned deadly last year. Tribal elders, the current Deputy Mayor and Founder of the Aurukun Women's group, have all agreed that a plan to resolve long-term problems in Aurukun is desperately needed. Interactions for Peace team members will travel to Cairns, Australia to train a team of 15 from Aurukun to include teachers, school administrators, local government officials and non-elected leaders (all members of the 5 different clans) for seven days of training in restorative peace practices in March, 2017. After the training, the teams will work together in restorative peace practices. Four members of the Aurukum team will travel to San Diego, CA for follow up training and visits to current Interactions 4 Peace projects. Primary Host Partner District: 9550 Rotary Club of: Mareeba Primary Contact: Ida Portella Email: idaportella@bigpond.com Primary International Partner District: 5340 Rotary Club of: La Mesa Sunrise Primary Contact: David Ballesteros Email: david.ballesteros@sdsu.edu Project Status Dropped This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped. Project listed for the 2018-19 Rotary Year. The TRF Grant application number is #1743669.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total La Mesa Sunrise (5340) 10-Jul-16 $5,000 $5,000 $10,000 Arlington (Sunrise) (5790) 16-Jul-16 $1,333 $0 $1,333 District 9550 DDF 17-Jul-16 - $5,000 $5,000 District 9640 DDF 27-Jul-16 - $5,000 $5,000 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation $3,166 $15,000 $18,166 Total $39,499 DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee. Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries 10-Jul-16 System Entry System Entry: Creation of project page. 10-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $7,500 with $7,500 DDF by DAVID BALLESTEROS of the Rotary Club of La Mesa Sunrise, District 5340. 10-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $5,000 with $5,000 DDF by Marilyn Sanderson of the Rotary Club of La Mesa Sunrise, District 5340. 10-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $13,334 DDF by IDA PORTELLA of District 9550. 10-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $15,000 DDF by Ida Portella of the Rotary Club of Mareeba, District 9640. 10-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $10,000 by Ida Portella of the Rotary Club of Mareeba, District 9550. 10-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $15,000 by Michael of the Rotary Club of Fassifern Valley, District 9640. 11-Jul-16 by Marta Knight At the meeting of the District 5340 Rotary Foundation Committee on 7-11-16, a match of $5,000 DDF was approved for this Global Grant to The Rotary Club of La Mesa Sunrise (D5340). This grant can proceed to the Rotary Foundation for approval. 12-Jul-16 by Ida Portella System Entry: Pledge of $5,000 DDF by Ida Portella of the Rotary Club of Mareeba, District 9550. 13-Jul-16 by Janice Kurth System Entry: Project reverted to "Published". 16-Jul-16 by Christopher McLucas System Entry: Pledge of $1,333 by Christopher J Mclucas of the Rotary Club of Arlington (Sunrise), District 5790. 16-Jul-16 by Christopher McLucas System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 17-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $15,000 DDF by Geoff Stockall of the Rotary Club of Coomera Valley, District 9640. 17-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $10,000 DDF by IDA PORTELLA of the Rotary Club of Mareeba, District 9550. 17-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $15,000 by Geoff Stockall of the Rotary Club of Coomera Valley, District 9640. 27-Jul-16 by Marilyn Sanderson System Entry: Pledge of $15,000 by Michael Irving of the Rotary Club of Southport, District 9640. 4-Nov-16 by Ida Portella Geoff Stockall, will be traveling to Aurukun on November 8 and will be meeting with Leaders and Elders in the Community. He will present PP on the proposed VTT project and how it will work, commitment from the Community, selection of team and sustainability of project! 9-Nov-16 by Ida Portella Meeting today with Andrew HEWITT the Regional Manager Far North QLD Region Indigenous Affairs Group Dep't of the Prime MINISTER & Cabinet Australian Government, Andrew Clarkson Senior Advisor to Andrew Hewitt,Stewart MARKWOOD Aurukun Justice Group, Trevor ADCOCK Aurukun Community Mediator, Brett JENKINS Officer in Charge Aurukun Police Station Brendon McMAHON Senior Sergeant appointed as a Senior Queensland Government Aurukun Coordinator. Advised that community need to support the program. HEWITT, MARKWOOD and ADCOCK all spoke glowingly of the program and how it matched their respective goals for the community. They expressed interest to find out more about the actual program A further presentation will take place to the Aurukun Justice Group 11 Nov - Geoff Stockall 13-Nov-16 by Ida Portella On Friday evening the 11/11/16 Geoff Stockall presented the Rotary Foundation Video and the VTT Kenya presentations to Janine CHEVATHAN Member on the Aurukun Community Justice Group And Glenn COMPAIN the Sergeant of the Aurukun Police Citizens Youth Club. Both expressed interest to help support the VTT. 29-Jan-17 by Ida Portella We are ready to travel to Aurukun to select team, we have support from Community and other Organisations. We will do this once we have Confirmation of Global Grant. DG Ida 9550 will follow up with DG Marilyn 5340 regarding submission of Grant. cheers, DG Ida D9550 16-May-17 by Ida Portella Grant is now ready to be submitted, we are waiting on final signatures from La Mesa Sunrise, District 9640, Sharon Myles and Mary Ann Mc Duff. We have also received support from the Aurukun Council once Foundation funding approved, program will commence. 2-Jul-17 by Ida Portella System Entry: Application Sent to The Rotary Foundation through Member Access. 17-Sep-17 by Ida Portella Due to politicial reasons in Aurukun we were unable to bring the VTT to this community. However we have identified the community of Lockhart River, we have had confirmation from the local council and the Inspector of the Cape York Police. We are currently waiting to confirm team and training dates. Brent Drage from the Foundation is aware and is supporting us. We will have further details and information in the coming weeks. 9-Dec-17 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Project dropped by Philippe Lamoise. Reason for dropping: Dropped at the request of David Ballesteros and Marilyn Sanderson. 9-Dec-17 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 16-May-18 by Ida Portella Update on Project. Apologies for the delay. We currently have two communities that have expressed interested in the Program they are Wudjal Wudjal and Doomadgee both of these isolated remote communities face similar issues as Aurukun. I have requested to meet with community leaders in both of these communities. Yesterday I also met with Indigenous Leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine OA and he has offered support and assistance. I have also spoken with Rotary Peace Scholar who is currently studying at the University of Queensland who is assisting us as well. It has been extremely challenging however we will not give up. Rest assured that I am totally committed to help bring this Peace Program to Indigenous Australia. I thank you for your patience and support IPDG Ida Portella 3-Jul-18 by Ida Portella Rotarian Yolonde Entsch has just met with Doomadgee Shire Council Community Engagement officer Leonie Florence. Doomadgee is a remote aboriginal community located in the Gulf on the border of Queensland and the Northern Territory. Once council approves visit of Peace Scholar Shen, we will complete needs assessment and will re submit Australia Peace Project. We are committed to making this happen as we believe we can help bring peace to the lives of many living in these remote communities. I will provide another update on July 13. Yours in Rotary PDG Ida Portella 15-Jul-18 by Ida Portella Our new Indigenous Community is Doomadgee, a Brief description of the program was emailed to Peace Scholar Shen Huang. Shen she has sent this to incoming Peace Fellows and the Graduate Centre Once confirmed we will work on getting the Peace Scholar to Doomadgee to do a needs analysis, we will then liaise with I4Peace to create program and resubmit Grant we are aware of September 2018 deadline. thanks Ida 19-Oct-18 by Ida Portella We have encountered a set back our Peace Scholar was taken ill and was unable to help, she is assisting in helping us find a replacement. We are still in contact with the Community of Doomadgee and are liaising with persons in the community who is interested in being our community contact. I have also made contact with Charles Allen Director of Partnership with the Institute of Economic and peace who has run various peace projects and has also offered assistance and advice. If the Districts are still ok to hang in there so will I thank you for your patience. Ida 2-Feb-19 by Ida Portella Hello Fellow Rotarians, Firstly I must a apologies for not providing an update earlier. We have had a set back with the community of Doomadgee as the Mayor was arrested, which put the community in disarray. Since then I have been working with another group on an Indigenous peace project in Mareeba - Mareeba is the gateway to the Cape York and has a high indigenous population with many violence issues. I also have access to the community which will allow me to support it with no costs involved. We have started writing the new Global Grant and we hope to have it submitted to you all by end of February and it will be done by the end of this Rotary Year. It has been an extremely challenging process and I thank you all for being so patient. I keep being told to persist. cheers, Ida 12-May-19 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Project dropped by Philippe Lamoise. Reason for dropping: Dropped at the request of Janice Kurth.