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MARTIN KELLY: Martin Kelly at Pathways 13

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in Canberra. I'm here with

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Gabby and Cleveland and they represent the

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Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience Program.

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Now it's a great program that’s happening and

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Gabby could you tell us a little bit about it.

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GABBY: Sure, so the program is roughly

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12 years old and started in Sydney

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and has grown to be Nationwide

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so, us here in Canberra.

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This year we've seen about 300 mentees

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so over 300 indigenous High School age

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students coming to our program

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which is mainly based at university site

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so ANU and UC where we partnered them up

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with university students as mentors to go

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through sessions for personal development

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and communication as a support for them

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for indigenous success and

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to get them to graduate high school.

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MARTIN: Fantastic, and Cleveland

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can you add anything.

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CLEVELAND: I think the program

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really speaks for itself. If we look at 2005

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when a young man at 18 years old had

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a crazy idea to put an end to inequality

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of Education for Aboriginal and

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Torres Strait Islanders high school

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students. Working with 25 volunteer

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University mentors, walking to a

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school just down the road and

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working with 25 indigenous

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high school students to 12 years

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later operating and running

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the Theatre of Education 49

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most important life lessons for

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

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high school students and we're currently

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working with over 7000 Nationwide.

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MARTIN: That's pretty impressive


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statistics so if you’re here at pathways

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come down and talk to Gabby and

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Cleveland about the program because

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there’ll be students that you will see

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that are sure to benefit from it

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and prospective students as well.

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If you're not at Pathways how can

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people find out about the program?
GABBY: Just Google us

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- aimementoring.com and send us

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an inquiry or email and someone

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will get straight back to you.


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MARTIN: Thanks Gabby

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and thanks Cleveland.