The land will be owned by Nalderun, on Dja Dja Wurrung country in the Mount Alexander shire.

Nalderun provides education and advocacy in support of Aboriginal children, young people and families, and delivers training and support to the broader community on different ways we can see and be in the world.

These ways hold and honour Country and bring about a sense of love and community for all.

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Uncle Rick Nelson said it was time to reconnect to the land, and that it would be amazing for the Dja Dja Wurrung community and the Aboriginal community to have a small parcel of land to call their own.

Nalderun CEO Kathryn Coff said our children need 'home'.

"They know they are the protectors and guardians of Country into tomorrow. In this place we feel our Ancestors, it is a place that needs protection and love.

"And to be shared so that all can experience what we and our kids feel and remember in every cell of our bodies. It's like we can sing, dance and be with our Ancestors there."

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The Aboriginal children in Nalderun's 'Meeting Place' program are already benefiting from the teaching they receive from Elders at an old, disused primary school. The Kuli Business young men's group and Tidda Business young women and non-binary folk group, as well as the First Nations youth program currently in its third year, are all without their own base.

Me-mandook Galk will be a central home for these youth programs and will also be there to accommodate the sharing of bush tucker knowledge for our Indigenous landcare group, and soon, this unique site will welcome our new training in conservation and land management through an Indigenous lens.

The crowdfunding campaign is seeking to raise $150,000 via Chuffed - see https://chuffed.org/project/mamunya

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