100 Success Stories - Publication Release

"100 Success Stories showcases personal stories of past and present secondary and tertiary student, houseparents and support staff of AHL hostels since 1973."

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 "100 Success Stories" is on sale for $15.00 each.
If you would like to purchase a copy please contact Marketing at Aboriginal Hostels Limited.

t: 02 6212 2096       
f: 02 6212 2099   
e: marketing@ahl.gov.au

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General Managers Preface
100 Success Stories celebrates achievements that Aboriginal Hostels Limited have played a central role in. Since our company commenced operating in 1973, these hostels have created unique opportunities for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, opportunities to get a good schooling, pursue apprenticeships and training and go to university.

Equally importantly, as so many of the stories in this book show, the hostels helped Indigenous Australians acquire the life skills necessary to make informed choices about their future, meet the demands of employment and urban social environments, and take much needed skills and training back to their communities.

The contribution this has made to the improvement of Indigenous Australian health, education, lifestyles, and communities is immeasurable. Many stories also show the transmission of those benefits to siblings, extended families and to successive generations.

Our education hostels have also made a significant contribution to employment for Indigenous Australians. Houseparents, cooks, cleaners, gardeners, maintenance people and night attendants have all been drawn from our communities, many of whom have been with the company for over twenty years. They have worked with dedication to provide the family environment, structure, discipline and support so critical to student wellbeing and personal development, as well as educational success.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that there would be few Indigenous families who have not had a connection in some way, over the years, to Aboriginal Hostels Limited.

In these 100 personal stories, past and present secondary and tertiary students, houseparents and support staff share their journeys, insights and wisdom. Each gives the reader an insight into what might be called personal miracles. Each story invests the reader with the certain knowledge that no matter what the odds, what can be dreamed can be achieved. And in each of their achievements Aboriginal Hostels Limited is privileged and proud to have played an active part.

Today Aboriginal Hostels Limited continues to own and operate secondary and tertiary education hostels around Australia. We also fund and support community based groups to establish and operate their own student hostels. Under the Australian governments new initiative, the Indigenous Youth Mobility Programme, AHL provides houses all over Australia to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to take up vocational training and apprenticeships.

With a strong sense of pride and achievement we congratulate all those whose stories inspire us from these pages, and the thousands more who were also students at our hostels, and who are out there making a difference. They are the inspiration and role models for our future generations.


Keith Clarke
General Manager

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National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Aboriginal Hostels Limited, 1973 - Publisher
Martiniello, Jennifer Avriel, 1949 - Compiler
Helen Topor, 1947 - Editor

ISBN: 970-0-9775611-1-7