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CDC NSW ADDS $750,000 TO ‘STOLEN GENERATIONS’ BUS SUPPORT Not-for-profit Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC)’s community healing efforts will receive $750,000 over three years in support from CDC NSW.
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ith the donation announced on National Sorry Day – May 26, 2021 – CDC and KBHACaffiliated Stolen Generations survivors also launched a ‘Sorry Day’ Campaign to build Australia’s first truth-telling museum and healing centre to help fellow survivors, their families and the community. KBHAC chairperson Uncle James Michael ‘Widdy’ Welsh (Uncle Widdy) is calling on all Australians to support the project and says the proposed museum and healing centre will play a critical part in Australia’s truth-telling journey.
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“Without truth telling there can be no healing,” said Welsh. “Our pain must stop with us; this museum and healing centre will ensure what happened to Stolen Generations survivors will never be repeated. “It will contribute to the rebuilding of our family structures and support the journey to lasting intergenerational healing across Australia,” he said. Led by KBHAC, Sorry Day is receiving essential support from CDC NSW, one of the largest private bus operators in the state, it explains. CDC NSW’s commitment to a $750,000 partnership over three years will assist the
not-for-profit with its rapid growth as one of the leading Stolen Generations organisations in Australia, it states.
UNLOCKING THE PAST KBHAC CEO Dr Tiffany McComsey says reconciliation takes action and she welcomes CDC’s strong support. “Our vision is for the museum to be built on a site of great historical significance for Australia – the former Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home property in Kempsey,” said McComsey. The property was a home run by the NSW government between 1924 and 1970. In that period it housed between 400 and
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