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The Water Well Project

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The Water Well Project is an award-winning health education charity that provides free, interactive health literacy sessions for migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker communities in Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania. Despite Australia’s world-class healthcare system, many of these communities face language barriers, cultural differences, lack of health literacy and unfamiliarity with our system. These barriers contribute to lower participation in cancer screening and vaccination programs, increased emergency presentations, longer hospital stays and poorer health outcomes. With nearly one-third of Australians born overseas, addressing these inequities is both a public health and social imperative. Our sessions are delivered in trusted community settings such as community centres, English as an Additional Language (EAL) classes and migrant resource hubs- places where people feel safe and supported. They are delivered by AHPRA registered healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, and allied health workers. With the support of accredited interpreters, sessions revolve around informal and interactive discussions that impart timely and accurate health information. Topics range from navigating the Australian healthcare system to mental health, women’s and men’s health, immunisations, child development, healthy eating and physical activity.

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