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WHAT IS THE WATER WELL PROJECT?
HOW DID IT COME ABOUT?
The Water Well Project is a not-for-profit
organisation which delivers free, interactive
and inclusive health education sessions to
community groups from migrant, refugee
and asylum seeker backgrounds. Working
in partnership with community groups,
the organisation facilitates tailored health
education sessions, with its many volunteer
healthcare professionals. To date, The
Water Well Project has delivered over 1,700
health education sessions to over 27,000
direct participants in Victoria,
new South Wales and Tasmania.
The Water Well Project started 14 years
ago, with a kickstart for one of its projects
from AMA Victoria. I was an intern at the
time and with a friend had delivered an
informal health education session to the
Sudanese Homework Club. A chance party
conversation with a friend who worked at
a major refugee support organisation led
to a formal meeting about formalising
and scaling our health education session.
Their organisation had been involved
in a recent needs analysis of the refugee
populations which identified addressing
health literacy as a top priority.
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