For the time when other Conferences Join this scheme

• You do not need to be an expert in Aboriginal culture to provide a Home Base for aboriginal students. You just need a few simple principles and you need to be generous with your time. the big benefit is that you end up having another son/daughter.
• Students have to come from homes with motivated parents - the parents need to firmly commit the kid for two years.
• If an Australian home agrees to take on an Aboriginal student for home weekends, the commitment needs to be for two or more years. The benefits really flow when a kid relaxes in a home. When you cop the moods, or get exasperated, then you are getting somewhere, then your faith is called in to operate, then you can really help
• Because Aboriginal people are so generous to one another, and our culture works differently, you have decide how far you will go and do not say 'Yes' to every request made of you. Otherwise, you get infected by the tendency that holds aborigines back.
• The School needs to be tolerant with two standards, one for non-aboriginal and another for aborigine, because sometimes an expectation might be in conflict with cultural expectation/experience. For example, a Kurdish kid who has lived in a Turkish Refugee Camp might not fight Marquis of Queensberry in a school yard dispute - wisdom for a teacher is to do nothing, until s/he understands what is going on, and for parents not to insist on one cap fits all!
• A commitment to an aboriginal kid requires you to give more time than you would for your own kid, because the aboriginal kid is battling to survive in an alien world.
• A family providing care for an aboriginal kid, will have to help the teachers in the school, because they endure the pressure full on as they try to manage a whole class full of kids. Support a teacher and you help a kid twice over.