News and Stories

The budding young chefs from Yiyili Remote Community School cooked up a storm at their recent Red Dirt MasterChef competition – and caught the attention of national TV and radio! EON’s Erika, and local edible garden co-ordinators Anthony and Shorty, had a great chat about the exciting and high-energy competition with Narelda and Tristan at […]

EON Foundation has announced the appointment of Kathryn Taylor as the new Executive Manager. Taylor joins EON Foundation’s experienced team to build on the not-for-profit’s track record of improving health outcomes in remote Indigenous communities. With offices in Perth and Katherine in the Northern Territory, Taylor will continue to build on EON’s 16-year success. Deeply

It could be an excerpt from the menu of a high-end city restaurant,  but this is what was served on a warm evening earlier this month by 11 accomplished high school students to an appreciative group of family members and guests at a special graduation event “under the stars” in the remote community of Barunga

We recently welcomed WA Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the Hon Tony Buti MLA to our Subiaco office, along with members of his team and Lead, Grants Development, Lucy Mallen from Lotterywest. Minister Buti presented EON with a grant certificate for the generous funding provided by Lotterywest this year to support EON’s training and extension programs

Aboriginal children and their families living in remote communities in the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory are set to benefit from improved nutrition and health, thanks to new funding from the Katherine Region Communities for Children Facilitating Partner program, facilitated by the Smith Family and funded through the Australian Government. EON Foundation (www.eon.org.au),

7News.com.au recently published the article below, quoting EON’s NT Operations Manager and our Executive Chair… $9 for milk and $84 for instant coffee: The Aussies hit hardest by soaring grocery costs (By Rhiannon Lewin / Finance/ 08/08/22) If you thought your grocery bill was high, these places show just how bad it can get. Milk

  EON has been successfully delivering our Thriving Communities Program to 3 schools/communities in the Mid-West region of WA since 2019. ATCO’s generous support will enable the 5-year Thriving Communities Program to continue to completion at Meekatharra, Mount Magnet and Yalgoo so that students living in these communities can continue to receive the vital health,

Meet the awesome edible garden team at the remote Kimberley community of Yiyili in this radio interview! Our wonderful WA Operations Manager, Erika, sets the scene. And then you can listen to Gooniyan man Shorty Cox talking about how “The high school kids come out, we teach them as well as show them how to irrigate,

EON’s wonderful Project Managers deliver regular Healthy Eating classes to the kids in community – and ‘healthy eating’ for ‘healthy hearts’ was the key message during Heart Week 2022. There was lots of discussion on good fats and bad fats – and of course how to combine ‘good fats’ with lots of healthy veggies from

Meet our awesome volunteers Christie & Lewis! We appreciate them every week – but especially during National Volunteers Week! Christie and Lewis were part of a team of 4 students from Curtin University who worked with EON last year as part of a uni project. ‘Off their own bat’ they contacted us again this year, offering