Walungurru (Kintore)

Walungurru (Kintore)

Phone: (08) 8953 6444

Walungurru or Kintore is located 550kms west of Alice Springs and is where it all started. With a population of 454 residents, Walungurru is on Pintupi Homelands with a small population of Luritja and Warlpiri people. The community is located at the base of Pulikatjara or ‘two hills’ a culturally important site and has a Clinic, Store, School, Council, Papunya Tula Art Centre, Police Station and Women’s Centre.
The funds raised from the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal purchased a dialysis machine which was installed in the Kintore Clinic, with the first dialysis treatment taking place on 25th September 2004.

In 2010, due to the amazing support and hard work of the Woden Rotary Club, we opened the Kintore Purple House, increasing our capacity to two chairs and providing much needed accommodation for our nurses. This amazing team of compassionate and industrious people took on the overwhelming job of transforming the ‘blue house’, an abandoned building, into the ‘Purple House’ dialysis unit.