My dad Mark is a Gamilaroi man from Walgett in northern NSW and worked for many years as an Aboriginal Education Worker in local high schools for disengaged young adults.
In this role he witnessed firsthand the disparity between mainstream students, disadvantaged and Aboriginal students.
More recently, through the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation I was fortunate to receive an education scholarship that our family could have only dreamed about.
Through our experiences we would often reflect on the significance of ‘opportunity’ on a young person’s perception of what might be possible in life and we were inspired to find a way to create opportunities for
others less fortunate.