SHYANNA Vandermerwe and Shania Crombie-Handy are young women who look forward to the future, and plan to make it their own.

The teenagers are part of the Kiilalaana program for young Indigenous women, which has just completed its first year of operation in Mildura.

Run by Barkindji-Ngiyampaa woman Shantelle Thompson, the program has been so successful that it will now stage a major conference of...