THE LIFE’S WORK OF AUNTY IVY

ONE PERSON MAKING A DIFFERENCE THAT SAVES LIVES

MEET AUNTY IVY

In this vignette, Ivy explains about her background, about the meaning of her face markings, and about what the whole world needs to remember. Her work honors the young, the elders, the elements, and beings who share the Earth with us.

Make it easier for Ivy to walk her walk, spreading healing and hope around the world.

Support Ivy’s journey and projects modeling healing.

Silent Voices Silent Tears Are Calling For Protection

This documentary highlights Ivy’s urgent call to build safe homes for the world’s most vulnerable children. After a decade of research across 30 countries, Ivy has seen good-hearted people at risk, hiding and feeding these children, often sacrificing their own. With a proven solution model, she needs your support to act now.

We’re calling for support so our children and grandchildren have a future of no more harm.

Be a part of healing the younger generations.

Greenstone Pictures

The Outsiders

Time to Include, Not Exclude, Our Younger Generation

Ivy, a leading Youth and Family Specialist from New Zealand with over 30 years of experience, successfully rehabilitated 12 Māori boys, as featured in this documentary. Her heart-centered healing program highlights the power of connection, culture, and unwavering dedication to transforming lives against all odds.

We’re calling for support so Ivy can hand down her experience to other frontline workers all over the world.

Be a part of healing the younger generations.

MORE THAN MEETS THE “I”

Ivy, one of Aotearoa’s leading youth specialists, helps at-risk youth heal and find belonging through a cultural, holistic approach. Her work spans foster care, suicide prevention, gangs, prisons, and schools, where she includes them, not excludes them, proving one person can make a difference.

We’re calling for support so Ivy can direct help toward healing centers around the globe that align with her model.

Back her expansion of programmes that work for the world’s most vulnerable, yet most impactful communities.

OUR Media Stories

Dive deeper into Ivy’s vision and initiatives through videos and documentaries that capture her global impact and call for unified support.

  • Aunty Ivy  at The Hague - Witness Stand for Climate Justice

    Aunty Ivy at The Hague - Witness Stand for Climate Justice

    Ivy appeals to the judges of the International Court at The Hague in the Netherlands along with a coalition of other Indigenous leaders calling for recognition and resolution of the harmful effects of climate change upon frontline communities across the globe.

  • Bringing Indigenous Wisdom to Europe

    Bringing Indigenous Wisdom to Europe

    Ivy explains her calling to become a voice for restoring Mother Earth, recognizing the way the body of Mother Earth has become disconnected, and seeing ways to reconnect. She explains her decision to leave home and become an ally with others working to bring change on levels of governance and innovation across the globe. The people, especially today’s young people, drive Ivy’s inner conviction to move the Earth forward toward collective action.

  • World’s Biggest Problem Highest Court of Justice

    World’s Biggest Problem Highest Court of Justice

    After five years of relentless advocacy, Polynesian students from Vanuatu secured the backing of 97 countries at the United Nations to present an emergency climate justice case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. Aunty Ivy, serving as an Indigenous representative, stood in solidarity with the young voices of these delegations, amplifying their call for justice.

  • Anavasi: About Awakening

    Anavasi: About Awakening

    This is a preview of the documentary “Anavasi,” a film that centers voices from all over the world, sharing their deep experiences, delving into questions about who we are, what holds humanity back, and what hope humanity has for transformative awakening.

  • Ocean Ambassadors: Aotearoa - Mako Shark

    This documentary explores marine environmental justice and the urgent need to protect OUR oceans and the life they sustain. Ivy highlights the vital role oceans play for Mother Earth, while voices from Aotearoa (NZ) share insights on fostering respectful relationships with marine life, including the Mako shark.

  • United Nations: Reflections on COP27

    United Nations: Reflections on COP27

    Ivy calls for unity and action, urging an end to broken promises at the United Nations COP. She emphasizes that standing together is the only way forward. No more talking, we urgently need action to create an inclusive system that cares for everyone and the planet.

  • United Nations: Reflections on COP26

    United Nations: Reflections on COP26

    At United Nations COP26, the Peoples Forests Partnership brings together global voices to restore forests and protect our planet. Ivy speaks about the sacrifices made to support “yesterday, for today, to save tomorrow.” Indigenous guardians of Mother Earth share their urgent call to act, only to leave with broken promises year after year.

  • Sweden: Mother Earth Delegation

    Activists and Indigenous leaders consider what present-day Earth and its smallest inhabitants are telling humanity about what needs to change. Ivy is featured in this film calling for unity of humanity for a better future.

  • Opening Auditorio

    Opening Auditorio

    Ivy gives the Opening Auditorio in Berlin at the 2022 Festival of Consciousness, inviting recognition and honoring to appropriately precede connection for purpose. Ivy has given numerous such convocations, comfortable transforming an auditorium full of people into familiar partners with common experience and responsibility.

Media Inquiries

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Aunty Ivy Smith, founder of the OUR Foundation, is a globally respected Indigenous leader, speaker, and advocate for healing, unity, and sustainable progress. Her voice bridges ancestral wisdom and contemporary solutions, inspiring audiences across the globe to address pressing social and environmental challenges. Through her work, Ivy emphasizes the importance of restoring balance to humanity and the planet while fostering intergenerational healing and leadership.

Ivy is available to speak on the following topics:

• Human Rights • Climate Justice • Reconciliation • Ancestral Wisdom • Inter Generational Trauma Healing • Culture-Based Healing • Youth and Family Healing

Requests to:
info@ourfoundation.earth