Donna's story

Donna's story

My name's Donna Kirby. I'm a proud Ngyiampaa woman from Lake Cargelligo, Murrin Bridge.

There are things that we can keep to ourself, but there's things that we really do need to share and the biggest thing is that we don't have to do this on our own. We don't have to walk alone. If we have a conversation with one of our mates or someone that's close to us, family or friend, talking about things always helps. And if we can talk freely about things that are affecting our life, that conversation is going to open up our thoughts on different things and my thing is that if we can help one person and that person can help another person, then that's going to make things a lot easier.

So we got to start those conversations when we can see that our family members or our friends aren't as happy as they usually are or something huge has happened in their life and just being able to be there for them and being able to give that little cuddle or have that cup of tea and talk things out.