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Indigenous Elder Women wanting to start up a bush medicine business

Fitzroy Crossing and the broader Kimberley community was heavily impacted in the worst flooding event in WA's recorded history last year. Many residents of Aboriginal communities were some of the worst impacted.

3 Elder Women in a local Aboriginal community want to start up a small business making bush medicines and selling it from their community. They want to contribute economically to their community and people as well as wanting to help young people who are struggling with mental health issues and addiction following the floods. They want to hold workshops teaching the bush crafts these women learnt from their mother's and grandmothers and to pass on their rich heritage.

The women would like to learn how to self manage this business from ordering, advertising and sales, to arranging the workshops and bush trips to gather the required bush foods and plants.