Yalari

yalari is a not-for-profit organisation that offers quality secondary education scholarships at australia's leading boarding schools for indigenous children from regional, rural and remote communities. our vision is to provide trusted, quality educational opportunities for indigenous children so they can achieve positive outcomes for themselves and their families and to make a valuable contribution as australians. our mission is to educate and empower indigenous children from regional, rural and remote communities to bring about generational change. we do this by giving indigenous children the opportunity for a first class education through full boarding scholarships at some of the highest achieving boarding schools in australia. yalari, from the birri gubba indigenous language group means “child”. it is the name waverley stanley, as the founding director, has been given permission to use by grandfather “blokey” wilson.