"The East Arnhem Region is located in the far north of the Northern Territory, bounded by the Arafura Sea to the north and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east. The region covers the Arnhem Land Aboriginal Trust (excluding Bulman), an area of approximately 41,000 sq km. It encompasses the towns of Nhulunbuy (also the regional service centre of East Arnhem Land) on the Gove Peninsular, Alyangula on Groote Eylandt, the islands of Galiwin'ku and Milingimbi and the major Aboriginal communities on the main land."
So all our packs will be going to these places too.
Not only that but Alice Springs is also covered in the Northern territory and they have a special care ward for preemies and everything so once I get a few hundred baby packs under my belt put together; I will contact the Alice Springs Hospital to see if they would like our packs as well.
We will have to send them in a fridge size box so perhaps around $1,000 to send. I will have to contact Cowra Freight and get a cost. I will also contact the RAAF later on to ask about taking all our baby packs to Darwin Airport in November.
We also have Tennant Creek Hospital in the NT however, I have read over their info and their hospital is only a 20 bed post for emergencies like broken bones, snake bites and so forth. They fix up the patient and the RFDS takes them to Alice Springs or the Royal Darwin Hospital. They also have an 8 bed renal unit but that's no good to us.
The families on the remote islands and clinics are Torres Strait Islanders and have a different colour flag but because they are also circa the Great Barrier Reef; the families love very bright tropical colours to wear too so we are looking for bright coloured baby garments but not fluro please.
Also, the Alice Springs Aboriginals use the black, yellow and red flag so they prefer those colours and very earthy Autumn like colours.
So to sum it up, we need alot of Aboriginal colour themed packs for the Northern Territory in Autumn colours because they are earthy; in black / red / yellow colours for Alice Springs especally; bright colours for Arnhem Land, Gove Peninsular, Darwin Hospital; tropical colours of the Great Barrier reef (no fluro) and colours of the Torres Strait Islander flag.
Please see photos below.
(Maree)