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Krash does Seven Bridges Walk
Krash does Seven Bridges Walk
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Krash! are a group of colleagues from Westpac plus friends who will walk, run or amble over 26kms to get fit, explore Sydney and more importanly, raise money for Young Doctors - a program established by The Malpa Project.
The Young Doctors program was created due to a gap in the Aboriginal healthcare. It focuses on educating children about the the importance of hygiene to prevent diseases such as trachoma and otitis media, causing preventable blindness and deafness respectively. But instead of just imposing Western methods, it works with local elders to also teach traditional medicine.
Shiney has been involved in the project for over 6 months and hopes that with your help, we can continue this valuable program to by "closing the gap".
So, we will strap on our bandages and sneakers on Sunday, October 28 starting from Barangaroo Village through to Rozelle, Hunters Hill and Milson's Point and returning, hopefully in one piece, to our starting point. Check out the map:
The Malpa Project
The Malpa Project is dedicated to supporting Aboriginal people to help themselves. In partnership with a range of senior elders in Central Australia we have developed the Child Doctors project. This is in response to a situation that is a cause for deep national concern. A few statistics help illustrate the problem. 91% of Aboriginal kids in the NT suffer from Otitis media leading to deafness. 25 % are affected by Trachoma putting them at risk of blindness.
Our response involves Indigenous and non-Indigenous health professionals working together to train kids [8-10 year olds] living in Aboriginal communities as "child doctors" so they can act as health ambassadors to their peers and younger children. The concept emerges from the highly successful World Health Organisation Little Doctor programs and most importantly builds on traditional Aboriginal approaches to health service delivery. This is Aboriginal people helping improve the lives of their children.