They will go to the
- Royal Darwin Hospital
- Tiwi Islands
- Katherine Hospital
- Gove Peninsula (Nhulunbuy Hospital) deep in the heart of Arnheim Land and the Rio Tinto mining area.
- Katherine Hospital
- Tiwi Islands
"The Gove Peninsula is on the west coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria within Arnhem Land, a vast tract of Aboriginal owned land on the Northern Territory coastline. The township of Nhulunbuy is the main commercial and service centre of the Peninsula and is 600 kilometres east of Darwin.
Based on a 2004 NT Government Socio-Economic Snapshot, there is a population of 14,115 within the Gove Peninsula (East Arnhem Region), of which almost 64% are Indigenous people and a population of nearly 4,000 in Nhulunbuy, the majority being non-Indigenous people. Those people not living in Nhulunbuy live in surrounding communities and traditional homelands.In the five years to 2004, the population declined in Nhulunbuy and Groote Eylandt and increased in the non-urban areas"
Around 60% of the population is Indigenous Australian and 40% other due to the mines etc. Here is a site for more information:
http://www.goveonline.com/nhulunbuy
Around June 2014 we will be looking for baby clothes for under 1lb, small, medium and large preemie and newborn in browns, coppers, eucalyptus greens, olive greens, ocres, reds and red / black / wattle yellow as well as lilacs / mauves, peaches, pale blues, pale pinks, spearmint greens, whites etc. For hat and bootee sets, gowns, blankets etc.
We will also be looking for Indigenous Australian fabrics as well to make NCIU smocks.