Our Vision
Ensure strong and proud identities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, that are encouraged, celebrated and nurtured.
Our Purpose
Develop proud identities in Our People by delivering authentic and interactive learning resources that are accessible.
Our Values
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Yourself
Knowing who you are, doing what you need to explore your individuality and being proud of your identity.
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Accessibility
Create opportunities for families and services to access and engage with authentic Aboriginal learning resources to share our rich and beautiful cultures.
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Adaptability
Being flexible to our people, our communities and our approach to working with others.
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Learning
Leading the importance of life-long learning and incorporating learnings into our resources, business and services.
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Imagination
Enable the use of imagination to empower choice and control for personal and group learnings and journey’s.
Our Story
We are a tribe of five on a business journey, sharing knowledge and culture while juggling parenthood with 3 booris. Yaali was born on a journey of its own, originally to create cultural learning resources for our Booris. Soon came accessibility for many more families and services working with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children. Solving the challenge of limited authentic cultural resources for interactive learning.
Our resources support people in learning about Aboriginal cultures in an interactive way where they can use their imagination. The connection to Yaali comes through our approach of adaptability. Our resources and service promote our audience to be yourself, be proud of your identity or how you support the positive narrative for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and communities.
Founder and Director Tanieka Riley is a Wiradjuri woman from Dubbo NSW. Tanieka has an interest and passion for culture, arts/crafts and early childhood education, with a background working in Koori preschools, Aboriginal youth programs and young women’s programs. Tanieka’s key role at Yaali is creating authentic and original Aboriginal educational resources for all ages.
Founder and Director, Cleveland is a Wiradjuri man whose bloodlines stem from Condobolin NSW. Cleveland has extended experience working for Aboriginal community across diverse, complex cross-cultural sectors; Education, Justice, Health and Child Protection. Cleveland has a significant passion for Adult Education, Leadership and Empowering our next generation.