• Organisation: Kurdiji

• Target Audience: Potential Donors

• Platforms: Gofund Me, Youtube, Facebook

When a young man committed suicide in 2005, in the remote community of Lajamanu, local Warlpiri elders said ‘Enough is enough’. Decades of western medical intervention had failed to stop indigenous suicides and, in 2005, Lajamanu’s elders took matters into their own hands.

With help from friends, Lajamanu established Milpirri festival to spread the traditional ideas of ‘Kurdiji’ among their young people and to foster a sense of belonging. They began to fight for every single young indigenous life in their community.

Now those same elders want to bring Kurdiji into the digital age, with a community created app based on stories, ceremonies and law. They want to fight for all aboriginal lives, not just those in remote or traditional communities.

Binkyfilms are proud to have collaborated with the the Kurdiji app and Mirafilm to develop a crowdfunding video for an app that aims to reduce suicide rates in Aboriginal Australian youth.