Can you believe it!? That's a wrap on 2024!! 🥳🥂
We would like to acknowledge the amazing work of all of YOU - our volunteers this year. It has been an absolutely incredible year of growth and we could not have delivered so many health education sessions without you all - our fantastic network of healthcare professionals, bringing your energy, time and skills to the task of improving health outcomes for people from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds. You continue to amaze us and we are so so grateful for each and every one of you 🤩💪
From everyone at The Water Well Project, we thank you and wish you a very happy holiday season and look forward to seeing you in 2025! ⭐⭐⭐ |
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In October, November and December: |
We delivered 69 sessions, to approximately 1300 participants covering 22 different topics, interpreted in 15 unique languages 🤯🤯🤯
But that's not it, scroll down to find out more... |
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STILL LOOKING FOR AN END OF YEAR GIFT? Donate today to give the gift of health literacy to people from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds. |
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The Water Well Project recently held our AGM for the 2023-2024 financial year, and wait until you hear this... It's been an incredibly busy period as demand for our health education sessions continues to grow. In FY2024, we facilitated 336 health education sessions, reaching 4960 participants. This represents huge growth on the previous year, when we facilitated 248 sessions for 4049 participants. We continue to offer a broad range of topics (over 40!!) , responding to community requests. In FY2024, the most in demand session topics were: Mental Health and Wellbeing (48 sessions) Healthy Eating and Nutrition (24 sessions) Women's Health (20 sessions) Bone and Joint Health (18 Sessions) Navigating the Australian Healthcare System (17 sessions)
We ran sessions in English alongside 30 other languages, with our most requested languages being Arabic (20.8%), Dari (17.3%), Mandarin (13.2%), Vietnamese (7.6%) and Farsi (6.1%). Other languages where interpreters were provided include: Tamil, Russian, Karen, Burmese, Cantonese, Falam Chin, Hazaragi, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, Tigrinya, Turkish, Ukrainian, Hakka Chin, Nepali, Oromo, Amharic, Assyrian, Chaldean Greek, Indonesian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Somali, and Tibetan. |
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📣 Feature in AMA Newsletter 📣 |
Our founder, Dr Linny Phuong, and The Water Well Project are
featured in this season's AMA newsletter and we are SO proud 🤗
Make sure you check it out here! |
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And in other exciting news! |
The Water Well Project New Volunteer Training is now approved for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points with the Royal Australian College Physicians (RACP), the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) and the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM).
Volunteers with The Water Well Project learn valuable skills in how best to communicate health information to communities from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds. Combining participation in New Volunteer Training, with hands-on experience facilitating sessions helps volunteer healthcare professionals to deepen their understanding of the health literacy barriers faced by the communities we serve.
So facilitating a session not only benefits the community, your personal development, but is now also recognised to benefit your professional development - win, win and WIN! |
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Some beautiful testimonials 💙 |
"The session provided valuable insights that will definitely impact my practice. I gained a deeper understanding of how to communicate health information more effectively, especially when addressing diverse communities." Healthcare Professional Facilitator, Westall Community Hub, Multicultural Seniors Group, Preventative Health session, 25/10/2024
"Participants may struggle but do not open up due to stigma. Rising awareness about services, strategies and available is valued information, guest speaker was very respectful and had used language easy to understand by our group. Water Well session definitely helping communities from migrant, refugee background to share and learn new strategies to promote their mental health and wellbeing."
Community Representative, Southern Migrant and Refugee Centre, Multicultural Parents Group, Mental Health and Wellbeing session, 7/10/2024 "The Water Well Project is a great help in bridging the gap between the communities and the health resources available in Australia." Community Representative, GenWest, Indian Womens Seniors Group, Diabetes session, 17/10/2024 "This session helps me to know about my health." Community Participant, GenWest, Indian Senior Women's Group, Diabetes session, 17/10/2024 "I felt too scared to talk about [menopause] before." Community Participant, Western Sydney LHD, Menopause session, 23/10/2024 |
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Sunday Session! Can you help?
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We have a session planned for Sunday 16th February in Narre Warren for a large Muslim group on Heart Health and Dementia. They are organising a community event on the day around our health education session so need to confirm a facilitator ASAP.
We would love this weekend session to go ahead, so if you are free - please register. Thank you! |
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Check out our 2023 Annual Report, now on our website. We have to say a very big thank you to one of our generous supporters,
Pressroom Philanthropy for creating it for us! |
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Since joining The Water Well Project, Renee has facilitated an incredible 25 sessions, including 15 sessions this year alone!! We are so grateful for her generosity in sharing her knowledge and time, and her dedication to the community. Thanks Renee! Make sure you check out her profile here! |
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And of course, thank you to the rest of our super star volunteers! |
The following brilliant volunteers have delivered a session this month.
Aidan, Angela, Anna, Annabel, Anusha, Ashly, Cheryl, Claire, Clarice, Dhanushree, Elaine, Emily, Georgia, Haddy, Hanneke, Harleen, Keeth, Lois, Lucy, Marjia, Michelle, Nicole, Renee, Roya, Ruby, Samantha, Samuel, Shughla, Siobhan, Sonia, Tharuka, Tracy, Vanessa, Vicky, Wendy, Yajat, Yamema, Yanyan and Zoe. Thank you team, you continue to amaze us! 🤩🤩🤩 |
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