About Me
- Megumi
- I came to Australia when I was 17 as a high school exchange student to Sydney. I fell in love with Australia then, and decided to come back for Uni. Now I'm loving here more than ever. I'm currently working full-time as DSW, and also studying full-time in Master of Social Work Studies.
Hi meg,
ReplyDeleteYou can set up another page and add your plan to that so it doesn't take up so much room on you posting page. Call me and I will talk you through it and how to add the page and move that.
Hi Meg,
ReplyDeleteNow to chat about your project- it looks great. You have really done some work on it. I have only this week taken off my close the gap band.
So how has the project been going for you.
The arm band was great- and I wore it to bali and talked much about it to everyone I went with. So it is a great way to generate the discussion with those who have little to do or exposure to the issues.
Karen
Hi Meg,
ReplyDeleteIt is unfortunate that we have not progressed very far as a nation in addressing the health issues of our Indigenous community. A clear example of this is in 1998 the World Health Organisation identifing trachoma as the leading cause of the world's infectious blindness, and that it was placed on their agenda to erradicate this diease world wide by 2020.
However our remote and rural Indigenous are still dealing with this infectious eye disease, which has long since been eradicated in the Australian cities.
When the World Health Organization (WHO)made their announcement trachoma was still occurring in 54 countries- Australia being one of them. The shame was that Australia was the only developed country that was on the list.
'The poor health of indigenous
communities has been likened – by
policy-makers and commentators – to
the problems of the developing world'(Bulletin of the World Health Organization April 2008, 86 (4))
Karen