Pawa Atunmankunytjaku
Project Overview
MoneyMob Talkabout has been engaged by the Remote Area Energy Supply (RAES) scheme, part of the Department for Energy and Mining, to develop and implement a community education and engagement program to ensure communities are ready for the introduction of electricity charging.
The Pawa Atunmankunytjaku Project will provide a house to house education program to all households in the lead up to the installation of smart meters and charging for electricity. There will be continued education after the introduction of charging.
The education is to be provided to all community housing residents in the APY Lands, Yalata and Oak Valley by Anangu Energy Education Workers who will be trained and supported by MoneyMob’s Trainer Mentors.
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Project Team and Contractors
Nicholas Rickard
Project Manager
Lisa Rogers
Trainer Mentor
Jenny Turner
Trainer Mentor
Lucas de Lastic
Project Support
Project Blog
Home visits begin in Yalata
By Lucas de Lastic In the middle of November, our newly trained team of Energy Education Workers (EEWs) completed the first round of house visits in Yalata Community. We would like to thank our EEWs for an amazing job with the team managing to speak to most of the...
Yalata EEW team completes training
By Lisa Rogers Training was held at Scotdesco (Tjilkaba) Community from Monday 8th to Friday 12th November 2021. On Monday afternoon Lisa and Lucas picked up the seven newly recruited Energy Education Workers (EEWs) from Yalata and drove them to the Scotdesco Training...
Energy Education Worker Spotlight – Denise Baker
Employee Name: Denise Baker Residential Community: Yalata How long have you been with the Pawa Atunmankunytjaku team? Since November 2021 What does your job entail? Door knocking and teaching community people about the paid power Who and what inspired you to join the...
Community engagement in Oak Valley
At the beginning of November, Nick, Lisa and Lucas joined Lynda and Mic from the RAES team and headed out to Oak Valley to speak with the community about the upcoming changes. We spent the day with a stall set up outside the shop to chat with people and show them the...
First visits in Pukatja, Kenmore Park and Homelands
By Lisa Rogers Yippee here we go again, another roll out of the door knocking of stage one of the Pawa Atunmankunytjaku Program in and around the Pukatja region this time. On this trip, Lucas stepped up into the acting Trainer/Mentor position while we recruited a new...
Energy Education Worker Spotlight – Aaron Fraser
Employee Name: Aaron Fraser Residential Community: Kenmore Park How long have you been with the Pawa Atunmankunytjaku team? Since June 2021 What does your job entail? Educating my community about the introduction of paid power. I'm the poster book specialist! Who and...
Energy Education Worker Spotlight – Ruby Hook
Employee Name: Ruby Hook Residential Community: Indulkana How long have you been with the Pawa Atunmankunytjaku team? Since April 2021 What does your job entail? I go door knocking to each house letting them know about the paid power changes coming to the APY Lands. I...
Project emissions offset with Treecreds
The Pawa Atunmankunytjaku team has partnered with Treecreds to offset our operational emissions for the 2020/2021 financial year. The majority of our emissions are transport emissions associated with staff travellling to and from remote areas both by road and air. We...
EEW Team doubles!
Last week we ran an additional Energy Education Worker (EEW) training session at Umuwa to train a team of workers to begin home visits in Pukatja and Kenmore Park. We were expecting that about five or six people would be able to attend the training but were blown away...
Energy Education Worker Spotlight – Barney Wanpiti
Employee Name: Barney Wanpiti Residential Community: Amata How long have you been with the Pawa Atunmankunytjaku team? Since June 2021 What does your job entail? Teaching community members about paying for power that is coming in July 2022. Who and what inspired you...