Fast Facts: To help one another: The story of Ma Mawi

The story of an Aboriginal organization, Ma Mawi, that at one point become a relatively big, bureaucratic organization which was proving to be unhelpful to the Aboriginal community, began remaining itself and then reconstructing itself on the basis of what its constituents said they wanted. Ma Mawi sought to re-connect with the urban Aboriginal community, and to work with the community to build on the existing strengths (e.g. culture) and to work to build the capacity of the community to solve its own problems instead of the organization trying to "fix" them.