meet our community partners

indigo foundation works with a wide range of grassroot groups, community leaders and locally-based organisations around the world. View our current and past partnerships below for detailed information on each.

current partners

Arcoiris

Timor-Leste
Arcoiris Timor-Leste is a locally led organisation dedicated to advocating for LGBTIQ+ rights, challenging discrimination, and fostering inclusive communities. Registered with the Ministry of Justice, Arcoiris works to improve the lives of LGBTIQ+ people in Timor-Leste through advocacy, education, and direct support services.

Magna Carta PNG INC

Papua New Guinea
Magna Carta PNG Inc's aim is to educate, empower and embrace human rights through four pillars - Protection, Reporting, Education, and Awareness of Human Rights in PNG (PREA).

Club Rafiki

Rwanda
Club Rafiki works in the impoverished district of Nyamirambo in Kigali to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for young people caught in a cycle of extreme poverty, lack of safe spaces and activities after school and high rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

PEKKA

Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
PEKKA is a women’s empowerment organisation based in Indonesia with a membership of over 25,000 women ‘heads of household’, including rural widows, abandoned and divorced women across Indonesia. PEKKA has led campaigns and programs aimed at education, health, access to justice, livelihood and women’s leadership in the community.

Juventude ba Dezenvolvimentu Násional

Dili, Timor-Leste
Juventude ba Dezenvolvimentu Násional (JDN) is a dynamic youth-led, community-based organisation based in Dili, Timor-Leste. JDN work across a number of issues, including education programs for young women on nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, public health work on covid-19 prevention and small income generating activities including JDN history tours.

Program for Education and Awareness Building

Maduranthakam, Southern India
Program for Education and Awareness Building (PEAB) is an education project that supports marginalised children in the district of Maduranthakam, a rural area near Chennai in southern India. The children are from Dalit families (formerly known as ‘untouchables’). Dalits in this area experience discrimination and most live in poverty.

Uplift

Madurai, Southern India
Uplift provides support to families from marginalised groups living in dire circumstances in a slum area of the city of Madurai in southern India. Discrimination, unemployment, alcohol addiction and domestic violence create many challenges, especially for women and children living in this area.

Hako Women’s Collective

Papua New Guinea Bougainville
Hako Women’s Collective is an umbrella organisation for all women in the Hako community in Buka and begun its work June 2006 with 650 women coming together seeking collective solutions to the problems they faced. They are committed to providing education and income generation opportunities, improving health and advocating for the rights of women and children.
View our past partnerships

additional partnership information

Some of our community partners are well-established, others are forming. Building the capacities of our partners, irrespective of their organisational stage, is one of the investments we make towards their development efforts being sustainable over time.

We recognise that each of our partner communities is unique—in the way they organise themselves, in the needs and cultural context of their communities, and in the priorities and solutions they action with their communities.

Despite both indigo foundation and our partners being relatively small organisations, this approach makes for considerable complexity in how we tailor our support to local partners.

Each community partnership has a volunteer Partnership Coordinator based in Australia who is the key point of contact for our partners. In some partnerships, we also have a local Liaison Officer who provides invaluable support to the partnership team.