Live To Tell Your Story

Purpose Built Trailer for Cooking with Remote Communities

Purpose Built Trailer for Cooking with Remote Communities

The Prepare Produce Provide Djinda Ngardak team go on a road trip to the Western Desert of Western Australia for ‘Dust Up’ – a festival based on sharing education and knowledge, as well as being a celebration across the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Guided by Indigenous elders and chefs, participants learn traditional cooking methods, gather bush ingredients, ...

GOAL

$20,000

RAISED

$500

Australia > WA > Regional
03/01/2025 > 21/01/2025

Field of Interest

  • First Nations communities
  • Health/wellbeing and medical research

Target Population

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • General population
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Prepare Produce Provide is the trading name for the not-for profit organisation Live To Tell Your Story Inc. Established in 2013 by like-minded and passionate home economics teachers in Western Australia with a vision for training and assisting young people to develop career pathways in the education, food and hospitality industries.

Our vision:
- We inspire vulnerable youth to realise their potential through innovative food education.

Our mission:
- To connect vulnerable youth to community, business and educators and empower them to reach their potential through innovative food programs that improves their health and wellbeing and opens pathways for them to achieve further education, training and meaningful employment.

Project Summary

The Prepare Produce Provide Djinda Ngardak team go on a road trip to the Western Desert of Western Australia for ‘Dust Up’ – a festival based on sharing education and knowledge, as well as being a celebration across the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Guided by Indigenous elders and chefs, participants learn traditional cooking methods, gather bush ingredients, and gain insights into their ancestral culinary heritage. The program fosters cultural pride and culinary skills.

The Prepare Produce Provide culinary team had the privilege of being invited to cook for Dust Up – the “On Country” Ngaanyatjarra Lands School event in the Western Desert of WA as well as hold culinary workshops along the way.

Over 17 days the team worked alongside school communities and guided by Indigenous elders and chefs, participants learnt traditional cooking methods, gathered bush ingredients, and gained insight into the ancestral culinary heritage. The program offers a holistic program tailored to connect youth with fundamental cooking skills.

Project Outcomes

Development of “Life Skills”- basic cookery skills to Power up the youth before their sport carnival.

Our aim is to build a purpose built trailer with Kooma Boodal First Nation students at Balga TAFE as part of the “Power Up 4 Dust Up” program 2025. Heavy metal certificate students will be working alongside Industry professionals to design and develop a purpose built trailer to support the work that have been achieved across 5 years in the remote communities.

The Bush kitchen trailer will house all essentials for the cooking workshops across 8 remote communities. The additional opportunity to assist with micro redialling, and employability skills in communities.

Budget Breakdown

TOTAL BUDGET: $120,000
FUNDING
Funding source Amount
Department of Education (confirmed) $70,000
Food donations (confirmed) $4,000
Pop up cafe donations (confirmed) $4,000
Mindaroo Foundation (confirmed) $2,000
Staffing and insurances (confirmed) $20,000
Funding gap (unconfirmed) $20,000
EXPENSES
Expense item Amount
Travel Expenses- 2 x hire cars, petrol, accommodation for 6 staffing $50,000
Food Items - cooking workshops, and sports carnival. 4500 meals $24,000
Pop Up Cafe- Warakurna Campus $4,000
Metals, suspension, licencing, cooking equipment, trailer set up costing. Logo and artwork, generator $18,000
Trailer wrap $2,000
Artist- art of the trailer. Consultation with Elders and artist. $2,000
Wages- volunteer workplaces as part of staffing annual leave, LSL staffing, insurances - remote. $20,000

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Level 6, 126 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne VIC 3002

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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