B1G1

At Wynyard Park we believe the best way to bring about real change is to help people help themselves. By prioritising projects that focus on income generation and education we hope we can help break cycles of disadvantage and bring about lasting change. Here are some of the projects we backed through B1G1, a social enterprise and non-profit organisation that supports over 600 grass-roots, high-impact endeavours across the world.

The Dot Com Mob

The Dot Com Mob work with remote Indigenous communities in Queensland and the Northern Territory helping them to establish and run their own community technology centres. They provide hardware and training so communities can manage the centres themselves and determine what programs they want to run. The Dot Com Mob also provides multimedia and IT training programs to improve educational and employment outcomes for community members.

Microloan Foundation Australia

It is often said that if you help one woman out of poverty she’ll bring four with her. Microloan Foundation Australia’s mission is to help women in Central Africa lift their families out of poverty and help them to become self-supporting.They do this by providing microloans to economically disadvantaged women in Malawi and Zambia. As well as loans, the foundation provides women with business skills such as bookkeeping to enable them to establish, maintain and grow their own businesses.