NPY Women's Council
The Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Women's Council is a community-based community organisation formed in 1980 delivering services to the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara women in the central desert region of Australia across the borders of the Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia with its headquarters in Alice Springs. It provides a range of community, family, research and advocacy services.
It addresses the common interests and family and cultural connections of women and their communities in its area of coverage, being:
- Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia;
- the Ngaanyatjarra Lands both leasehold and native title lands in Western Australia; and
- Imanpa, Mutitjulu, Kaltukatjara and Aputula in the Northern Territory.
Awards
The NPY Women's Council has achieved recognition for its work, awards include:- winner of the 2012 Indigenous Governance Awards presented by Reconciliation Australia and BHP Billiton
- Deadly Awards
- *2012 Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Advancement Tjanpi Desert Weavers
- 2011 International Sigmund Freud Prize from the City of Vienna to the Ngangkari program
- 2005 Women in Community Policing Award, Australasian Policewomen’s conference, Darwin
- 2000 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Award to NPY Women’s Council in the Community Sector