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Our mission
We exist to protect the cultural and spiritual significance of the bindi — and to put resources behind the women and girls who carry that heritage forward.
Mission statement
World Bindi Day is a global movement dedicated to preserving the cultural and spiritual significance of the bindi while empowering women and girls worldwide.
Since 2020, we have brought people together through celebration, education, and action — funding programs that turn one day of recognition into a year of opportunity.
The four pillars
Honour our rich heritage through oral history, exhibitions, and an open archive of first-person stories.
Inspire knowledge and awareness with free curriculum, campus chapters, and speaker visits.
Create opportunities and leadership through mentoring, training, and direct micro-grants.
Build stronger communities by reinvesting what each celebration raises back into local programs.
Our approach
Every celebration follows the same four-stage path, in order. This is how a single day turns into lasting work.
A local host brings people together — a hall, a campus, a park. We provide the toolkit, the branding, and the story.
Every gathering includes the history: where the bindi comes from, what it has meant, and what it means to the people in the room today.
Ticket sales, sponsorship, and donations from the event go into a pooled program fund, with a share reserved for the host community.
Within 90 days we publish what was raised, where it went, and who it reached — so the next host knows exactly what they are building on.
Donations pay for curriculum, workshop facilitators, and grants to women-led community projects.
Event invitations, stories from the community, and ways to take part.
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