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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: A new social enterprise owned and runned by Aboriginals will

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Speaker 2: deliver more affordable food to communities in Central Australia. Kia

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Speaker 2: to Country aims to address the food inequalities faced by

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Speaker 2: Aboriginal communities in Central Australia. To talk more about it

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Speaker 2: is Kya to Country CEO Jessica Wishat. Jessica, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, morning, Thank you for having me our pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Jessica. Can you tell us about Kia to Country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so Courra it's pronounced my apologies. No, that's okay.

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Speaker 1: Career to the Country. We're just setting up and literally

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Speaker 1: at the beginning stage of establishing our company. But we're

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Speaker 1: based in Alice Springs and we'll be servicing looking to

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Speaker 1: service Alice Springs, Penet Creek and about one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty clicks from Alice Springs by communities within one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty clicks and outstations of our springs by the

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Speaker 1: end of January twenty twenty one. So at the moment,

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Speaker 1: we're in our springs and we're being doing community consultations

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Speaker 1: and just getting some feedback of our communities, establishing some

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Speaker 1: more partnerships and in and around Alas Springs with communities

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Speaker 1: and some of the stores, and we got a bakery

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Speaker 1: on board, and just getting other partnerships in board with

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Speaker 1: businesses and yeah, looking to start our operations in January.

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Speaker 2: What inspired you to come up with this?

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Speaker 1: So basically we come. We've been living in Adelaide, my

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Speaker 1: family and I've been living in Adelaide for the past

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Speaker 1: ten years, but always coming home to Alice Springs. Alice

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Speaker 1: Springs is home for us. And we were here in

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Speaker 1: March April of this year when COVID pandemic started and

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Speaker 1: they the communities were going into a bit of a

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Speaker 1: lockdown for their safety, and we were a bit worried

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Speaker 1: about the family that we had out in the community,

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Speaker 1: so we went into town to buy some food to them,

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Speaker 1: and we were just sort of astounded by the prices

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Speaker 1: that we were paying for the meat in town and

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Speaker 1: in the communities. And with that, you know, my family

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Speaker 1: and I, my brothers and I got talking. We went

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Speaker 1: back to Adelaide. We were talking to a friend of our,

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Speaker 1: Thomaticks and then another friend of ours, Robin Barrell, who's

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Speaker 1: a farmer, and you know, from these conversations come the

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Speaker 1: idea of cre at a Country because it's a service

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Speaker 1: that we actually get from our friend Robin in Adelaide,

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Speaker 1: where our meat, our lamb is actually delivered to our

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Speaker 1: door at a much cheaper price than what they pay

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Speaker 1: for here in non territory. And we just thought this

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Speaker 1: is a service that our community should be getting. Why

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Speaker 1: can't they have their meat delivered in bulk to their

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Speaker 1: door as well.

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Speaker 2: It is a very good point and a very good

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Speaker 2: idea because I guess, you know, living in Darwin or

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Speaker 2: even in Alice Springs, you know, I'm sure there'll be

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Speaker 2: a handful of you know, food delivery services available that

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Speaker 2: provide you know, different food options and different pricing options

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Speaker 2: as well. But when you look at our remote communities,

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Speaker 2: you've really only got one option as to where you

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Speaker 2: can source and pay for your food.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we understand that the community store is a

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Speaker 1: really important part of our communities and we want to

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Speaker 1: work with our community stores the best that we can.

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Speaker 1: We would love to have cre At a Country Meat

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Speaker 1: on the show else in the community stores as well,

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Speaker 1: So we hope that we get most of the services

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Speaker 1: and the stores on involved and on board with us.

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Speaker 1: But we also really are passionate about making sure that

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Speaker 1: our residents have choice and have a variety and have

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Speaker 1: the choice and an option to go elsewhere and source

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Speaker 1: their kura, you know, from our.

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Speaker 2: Jessica, as I understand it, you'rebviously in the planning or

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Speaker 2: the final planning stages at the moment when and where

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Speaker 2: will it be available.

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Speaker 1: So we are based in our springs and our pilot

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Speaker 1: will be starting, like I said in our springs panet

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Speaker 1: Crekan one hundred and fifty clicks from our springs. So

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Speaker 1: our pilot will take off in January where we go

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Speaker 1: out and actually do a sign up phase. So we'll

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Speaker 1: go out to the communities, the communities that you know

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Speaker 1: and want us out to see them and visit them

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Speaker 1: to have a hold of barbecue, have a sign up

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Speaker 1: day where people sign up to the packs that they

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Speaker 1: want and the best payment methods for their family, and

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Speaker 1: then every six weeks the meat will be dropped off.

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Speaker 2: And I'm just reading here payment for the meat packs

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Speaker 2: will be available in the form of interest free payment

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Speaker 2: plans as well.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we have interestry paysans vise center pay here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an excellent initiative, Jessica, Are you looking for

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Speaker 2: sponsors or suppliers to still come on board.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's whe we're out. At the moment, we're really

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Speaker 1: pushing hard, like we're social enterprise that we're the startup,

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Speaker 1: and this business is a massive startup, so you know,

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Speaker 1: we're finding it a little bit more difficult to get

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Speaker 1: the funding behind us, but we're getting there. But you know,

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Speaker 1: we're really pushing to get some support from local people,

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Speaker 1: from services, from businesses, private businesses, anyone that really has

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Speaker 1: an interest or just wants to give back to a

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Speaker 1: known enterprise that's actually having an impact, the grassroots impact

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Speaker 1: for Aboriginal people. On our website, you can see how

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Speaker 1: you can donate and sponsor and there are things that

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Speaker 1: you can get for sponsorship as well.

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Speaker 2: And is it just supplies you're looking for or I

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Speaker 2: guess you're looking for people who can help transport and

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Speaker 2: deliver them as well.

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Speaker 1: Well. We've actually we're going into partnership with a couple

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Speaker 1: of freighting companies, but at the moment, it's really about

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Speaker 1: financial support at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, understandable, Jess. Can you give us that website once

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Speaker 2: more if people are interested in sponsoring and coming on board.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So you can find us at Curt Country dot com.

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Speaker 1: Dot au and on Facebook, cur Country and Instagram at

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Speaker 1: cur Country.

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Speaker 2: Well, Jesse, it sounds like a wonderful initiative. We look

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Speaker 2: forward to seeing how it goes. Keep us posted and yeah, look,

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Speaker 2: if there's anything else we can do, please let us know.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Jessica, have a great day you too. By now cheers.

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Speaker 2: That is Jessica Wishat from Kura to Country the CEO.

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Speaker 2: That's a new social enterprise owned and run by Aboriginals

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Speaker 2: to deliver more affordable food to communities in Central Australia.

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Speaker 2: Now I did pronounce it wrong a little bit earlier,

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Speaker 2: but if you are searching for it online, it's Kourra

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Speaker 2: spelt k er to country. The words to country, so

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Speaker 2: it's Kura to country, k ere to country. If you

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Speaker 2: want to search for them online and find out a

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Speaker 2: little with more