Decade of dreams for Kimberley girls

Highly successful indigenous leadership program Kimberley Girl will celebrate a decade milestone this year and organisers are giving the next wave of aspiring young women the chance to take part.

Goolarri Media Enterprises is once again bringing the program to the Kimberley and indigenous women aged between 16 and 25 are encouraged to apply.

Kimberley Girl, first launched in Broome in 2004 by former Broome model Kira Fong, plucks young Aboriginal women from all over the Kimberley and Pilbara and encourages then to pursue their dreams.

The program consists of five days of workshops in each community, focusing on personal development, grooming and deportment which then culminates in a showcase event based on a fashion parade format.

Winners from each heat will then go on to further workshops and the chance to take part in the final, where the 2013 Kimberley Girl will be crowned.

Heats will be held in Derby and Broome, with the finals also beingheld in Broome.

However, entry is open for any indigenous woman based in the Kimberley.

Kununurra will hold workshops for participants from the East Kimberley, who will then go on to hold their own heat in Broome.

Goolarri Media chief operations officer Kira Fong said Kimberley Girl was about leadership.

“It is about giving young women the tools to realise their potential, to empower them in their endeavours, to give them the confidence to dream big and reach for the stars,” she said.

Ms Fong said the last decade had been a fantastic journey to see the program grow from a small one-day event in Broome to a five-day program in the wider Kimberley and now the Pilbara.

The program will run in Kununurra from September 16 to 19, Derby from September 23 to 27 and Broome from September 30 to October 4.

For more information or to register interest, contact Goolarri Media Enterprises on 9195 5333