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Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation - “Follow the Dream”
The Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation working in partnership with communities, industries and governments in Western Australia to assist Indigenous students reach their potential.
Alcoa’s three-year agreement with the foundation established and maintains the Peel “Follow the Dream” Centre.
The objective of this program is to deliver intervention and support strategies to improve the educational outcomes of Aboriginal students to enable them to progress to higher education, further vocational training or employment with local industry.
The program targets aspiring indigenous students in years 8 -12, who have shown ability in their primary schooling and demonstrated a potential to achieve within the education systems.
The program provides a private and supervised environment for students to attend after school to do homework classes, with the support of tutors. Twenty eight students utilised the Mandurah centre in 2006. Four of these were Year 12 graduates who have each gone on to tertiary study or employment.
For further information on the Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation click here.
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