About Gulagbi
Outside of my practice, I am a multi-passionate woman, mother, foster parent, permaculturist and director of my own not-for-profit organisation, Gulagbi – Collaborative Sustainable Developments Ltd.
The vision of Gulagbi is to help vulnerable communities become self empowered to overcome poverty and illness, while also improving access to culturally appropriate birth support.
We are currently working in remote villages of Papua New Guinea, where I have had the pleasure of living and working in community, being introduced to their culture and lifestyle, supporting women birthing on country and being invited to meet with village leaders and elders to gain a greater understanding of what support is needed most.
This adventure began in 2010 when two of our foster children arrived. Their father was an Australian Torres Strait Islander and their mother was from a remote village in Papua New Guinea. Through their families we learnt what life was like in the villages and started helping them, which evolved into helping the school in the village, and any patients flown from the surrounding villages into Australia for emergency and life threatening situations.
At the heart of all my work is a passion to help others, which has been made possible with the continuous support of my husband and family. At one stage, we had a total of nine children living with us.
The three most important things for my family were happiness, health and education, which have become the central pillars of support Gulagbi aims to provide.
With this as our focus we spent many years traveling and living in some of the most incredible remote places in Australia, home educated our children following a natural learning philosophy, and everywhere we went we designed gardens and grew fruit and vegetables using sustainable systems.
My clients have described me as a genuine, compassionate and caring woman. And a significant part of my growth was the life my husband and I created and becoming a mother to my two biological sons as well as the many children placed in our care over the years as foster parents.
I now channel these experiences into Gulagbi as it continues to grow and evolve and I am excited for the possibilities and opportunities our little organisation can co-create.
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