Queensland Health has developed fact sheets about public healthcare access for people seeking asylum in Amharic, Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Tamil, Tok Pisin and Urdu. You can read more about health care access for asylum seekers by using the links below:…
Submission to the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee Inquiry into the Victorian Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
This submission has been developed by the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH). Introduction The Multicultural Centre for Womens’ Health (MCWH) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to comment on the Victorian Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as…
È essenziale la diffusione di informazioni multilingue, non solo in inglese
By Il Globo Editorial Team Accessed: 6 August 2020 È essenziale la diffusione di informazioni multilingue, non solo in inglese. Dalla disoccupazione agli alloggi, dall’isolamento sociale alle violenze familiari. Featuring MCWH Executive Director, Dr Adele Murdolo
COVID: language barriers continue to put multicultural groups at risk
Listen to MCWH health educator, Qia Sun, talking about our work with the housing estates across Melbourne.
The WRAP #89: Community and belonging, listening to migrant women and 60 seconds with Lucia Li
Dear WRAP-pers, This month, we faced sharp a return to lockdown as transmissions in Victoria continued to increase by the day. Overnight, public housing towers were locked from any outdoor activity, while suburbs entered stage 3 restrictions without any timely…
The WRAP #89: Community and belonging
My name is Amona Hassab and I work as group work facilitator at a settlement service. I’m from a former refugee background. I was born in Egypt and my parents were born in Eritrea. My father passed away in the…
The WRAP #89: Listening to migrant women
The second wave of COVID-19 hit Melbourne suddenly and brutally this month, and this time, it is starkly apparent that migrant women and their communities have been one of the groups hardest hit. The second wave has been concentrated in…
The WRAP #89: 60 seconds with Lucia Li
What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I am enjoying getting to know me and learning to practice gratitude especially during this time (when everything can become stressful). Name a book or a film that changed your life I…
Media release: 1 week, 1337 calls to migrants in public housing towers
July 2020 From unemployment to housing, and increased social isolation to family violence, COVID-19 has affected the lives of migrant women in Australia. And yet, they have fewer opportunities to access culturally appropriate information and services in their own language.…
Advice for pregnant women and new parents
Birth for Humankind has developed a fact sheet for pregnant women and new parents. You can read more about pregnancy and being a new parent by using the link below: Advice for pregnant Aboriginal women and new parents-fact sheet.pdf Advice…