When you sponsor an Aboriginal birth certificate, you are sponsoring someone’s human right to vote, legally drive, play sport, get a tax file number and enrol in school.
For some Aboriginal people, their cost is too high.
“We were scared of authority back in my day, but it’s different now. People need their birth certificate.”- Aunty Rosie, Kamilaroi woman and Director at Pathfinders
The links between the stolen generations and the non-registration of Aboriginal births are clear. When Elder Aunty Rosie was a young girl growing up in Kamilaroi Country in northern NSW, she’d head for the bush when she heard police or the school inspectors were in town.
Now, Aunty Rosie is one of the directors of Pathfinders National Aboriginal Birth Certificate Program (PNABCP) in Canberra, a not-for-profit group that helps make life easier for people in need. As part of its many programs, it helps provide free birth certificates and registrations for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island community.
Pathfinders has assisted more than 13,000 people since 2015 by ensuring Aboriginal people are assisted by mob so that they feel safe during the application process.
They need your help to keep holding sign up days for 1000 more Aboriginal people who need this important document.
Chip in to this First Nations-led movement for the human rights of all First Nations people.
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Pathfinders National Aboriginal Birth Certificate Program (PNABCP)
Address: 215 Beardy Street, Armidale NSW 2350
Mail: PO Box 1052, Armidale NSW 2350
Tel: 02 6771 1527
Email: admin@pathfinders.ngo
Website: https://www.pathfinders.ngo