K Farmer Dutjahn Foundation
The K Farmer Dutjahn Foundation (KFDF) is a not for-profit-foundation dedicated to positively impacting and contributing to the economic, social, cultural, and environmental wellbeing of Indigenous peoples connected to the Sandalwood growing regions of the central desert of Western Australia, in particular the Central Desert Indigenous peoples and their descendants.
Dutjahn Sandalwood Oils is a major financial supporter of the K. Farmer Dutjahn Foundation, and the organizations work together to address the root causes of poverty, sickness, and its related negative impact on Martu peoples, and all other Indigenous peoples who relate to, and are connected to, the Sandalwood growing regions of Western Australia.
Find out more about K. Farmer Dutjahn Foundation here.
Focus areas
To achieve these aims, the Foundation focuses its efforts on the following key areas:
ENVIRONMENTAL Wellbeing
Expanding Indigenous regenerative practices
To protect, preserve and expand Sandalwood wild harvesting forests in a way that is regenerative and innovative.
To fund innovation and research into uses of the deadwood from Sandalwood Harvesting Resource Areas to decrease environmental impact of forestry management practices.
People’s Wellbeing
Building Indigenous capacity and self-sufficiency
Fund, facilitate and support Sandalwood workforce capacity and employment opportunities via technical training, development of Sustainable Management Plans, loans for business development.
Support and build capacity for native title holders to gain access to, ownership of, and share resources within Sandalwood growing regions within native title lands.
Build and Support Indigenous collective power and voice within the Sandalwood industry to extend Indigenous leadership and influence within the Sustainable Land Management and Forestry Management areas.
Cultural wellbeing – Preserve, revitalise and embed cultural knowledge, including Sandalwood knowledge, to improve wellbeing for Indigenous peoples living and working in Sandalwood desert homelands.
Deliver projects that address poverty, sickness and disease prevalent among Indigenous communities in Sandalwood growing regions.
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