Newslines Radio: Alice Springs - Caring for elders

This week Newslines Radio looks at an organisation in Alice Springs that is helping to close the gap in indigenous disadvantage for local elders.

The Akeyulerre Healing Centre provides local elders with a safe and healthy setting to practice their culture and traditions and pass on their knowledge to the young people of central Australia

The manager at the Akeyulerre Healing Centre, Jane Ulrik, told Newslines that the centre was a place that local elders could call their own.

“They wanted to create an environment that was safe especially where people could come, have a cup of tea, just sit down enjoy each other’s company, a place that was free of argument, free of stress.”

In this program Myra Gorey talks about the business side of the Akeyulerre Healing Centre, selling healing products to the public.

“We provide the bush medicines free to the community and we started getting interest from the wider public so we started thinking we will get better packaging so we can start selling it,” Myra says.

“It’s sort of an opportunity to learn the traditional ways as well as the modern ways of learning to run a business.”