Indigenous Community Volunteers

In 2008-09, ICV facilitated 440 volunteer assignments across Australia - 171 per more than the previous year. This growth directly benefited over 25,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and indirectly reached over 151,000 people. The total amount of volunteer time put into ICV projects was 33,341 days or around 128 years of human service.

ICV is Reconciliation in action. Ninety per cent of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islaner communities felt Reconciliation was of equal or greater importance than the communityi and human development outcomes we achieved. Ten per cent of all ICV projects involved Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people volunteering for other people outside of their community. Ninety-four percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients were satisfied with ICV as a way of building their community and 97 per cent advised that they would invite us back again.

ICV’s full Annual Report 2008-09 and our Impact Analysis Report have more information.