Month: October 2020

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APY Lands

Corporate and Social Responsibility

Moving Together is an environmental and community outreach program developed by Two Men and a Truck. It forms part of the company’s overall public relations activities. Essentially Moving Together is a corporate responsibility program encompassing environmental and social initiatives in three areas:
1) within our business (our people and the physical environment)
2) in our local community (sponsorship / fundraising / voluntary assistance with local community people)
3) in the wider community (sponsorship / philanthropy / raising awareness with national and international initiatives)

Moving Together with Two Men and a Truck

The weather station at Indulkana, in close association with the Indulkana School, addresses the third area of environment and social initiatives, as outlined by Two Men and a Truck’s corporate responsibility program: wider community sponsorship, philanthropy and raising awareness via national and international initiatives.

Two Men and a Truck are pleased to support the awareness of the APY lands, their community and their culture.

Learn more about APY, lands and community.
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Indulkana Weather

What does the weather station do?

Indulkana Anangu School Weather Station, 2017

The weather station installed at Indulkana in 2017 is an Australian owned, designed and produced weather station from Environdata.

The ‘Automatic Weather Stations’, or AWS, measures and records weather data from its location.  Environdata’s weather stations are built tough to survive Australia’s harsh climate extremes. Their weather stations undergo strict design testing, will operate with minimal maintenance for long periods and the sensors can measure to Australian standards.

Weather Reports

The weather station at Indulkana measures and reports on the following:

  • Air Temperature in celcius
  • Rainfall in millimeters
  • Peak wind gust in kilometres per hour
  • Wind speed in kilometres per hour
  • Battery power in volts
  • Dew point in celcius
  • Evaporation in millimetres per hour
  • Relative humidity in percentage
  • Vector wind direction
  • Solar radiation in watts per meters squared
Check the weather reading at Indulkana right now!
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Richard Kuipers

Who is Richard Kuipers?

Richard demonstraing online access to the data available from the Indulkana Weather Station.

Richard Kuipers is a man of many interests, talents and stories!

He is a Holland native, a pilot, a businessman and successful entrepreneur. He is a husband, a father and grandfather; he is a lifelong bridge player, a member of Toastmasters International, an active community member and an ‘ideas man’. Suffice it to say, it is hard to keep up with Richard!

To find out more about Richard, please visit his personal website.

Find out more about Richard Kuipers.
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APY Lands

Purple House

After purchasing an artwork by Jimmy Pompey, from the Iwantja Arts Centre, Richard and Cheryl Kuipers became aware of health issues which resulting in Mr Pompey being unable to attend his own sold-out show. This led Richard and Cheryl to learn more about the issue of kidney disease in Indigenous communities and the challenges in regards to accessing health services within remote Australian communities.

Richard become aware of fundraising efforts on behalf of Purple House, which provides dialysis services to remote Australia, including the community of Indulkana. Richard and Cheryl gladly supported this important work with a donation on behalf of the Indulkana community.

It is a sobering statistic that remote Indigenous people in Central Australia are up to 30 times more likely to suffer from kidney disease than the rest of the nation. Families often must move off their country and travel to Alice Springs or Darwin for dialysis treatment. Communities are often left without elder leadership, families are sometimes broken up and as a result, culture is weakened.

Families stay united and traditional owners can look after their country. We’re not just saving people, we’re saving a way of life.

Sarah Brown, Chief Executive of Purple House

Purple House is an innovative Indigenous-owned and run health service operating from its base in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Now operating over eighteen (18) remote clinics and a mobile dialysis unit called the Purple Truck, Purple House gets patients back home quickly so that families and culture can remain strong.

The Purple Truck mobile dialysis truck.

Purple House welcomes inquires and donates to help fund the important work they are doing to ensure that Indigenous Australian in remote regions have access to quality health care, remain connected to their communities and united with their families.

Learn more about the important work of Purple House

Purple House and the Purple Truck services the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia. To find out more about APY Lands, click on the button below.

Find out more about APY lands