HART Awards YouTube Channel ‘Highly Commended’

In June 2021, Girraway Ganyi Consultancy was awarded ‘Highly Commended’ for the Girraway Ganyi Consultancy YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ--N9r7-SxvArqLA_qs8tg

in the 2021 HART AWARDS.

The HART Awards (Helping Achieve Reconciliation Together),

http://www.reconciliationvic.org.au/victorian-hart-awards

launched in 2014, recognises initiatives by local governments and community organisations that are advancing reconciliation in Victoria.

During COVID19, AJ envisioned a portal where Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people could share their stories, thoughts and experiences in a way that would allow Indigenous narratives to be told by Indigenous people themselves. These stories & experiences are able to viewed by all people (Indigenous & non-Indigenous), allowing Indigenous understandings of personal histories, experiences, facts & strategies to be heard in an attempt to achieve reconciliation.

In partnership with Scotch College, Camberwell Grammar School, Woodleigh School, local Elders, Aboriginal Health Workers & non-Indigenous allies – a total of 105 short videos were written, recorded, edited and uploaded to the Girraway Ganyi Consultancy YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ--N9r7-SxvArqLA_qs8tg/featured

for viewing.

As part of his Diploma of Youth Work & Diploma of Community Services Work. Ash Tchen (Mentor & Deadly Thinking Trainer) interviewed students, edited and produced many of the films seen on the channel.