Archive for the Positive Category

In April 2019 a group of 28 courageous Yolngu participants from Elcho Island took part in a 2 week live in health journey to experience a different way of eating and living. They put their bodies on the line and personally engaged in the fight against the

DAY 1 Day one of our journey through a Yolngu funeral through my Balanda eyes… So the body arrived yesterday.  A special shelter is built to house the body for the duration of the funeral, which often goes for about a week.  The shelter is large enough

Since the commitment to Closing the Gap in 2008 Indigenous death rates have actually increased.   This is a graph taken straight out of the Prime Minister’s 2017 Closing the Gap Report (pg 82 or here), I added the horizontal grey line to show mortality rate in

One of our participants summed up what it is all about: “This is the first time that i have felt my body rejoicing.” Yiraŋdjil To me that completely captures the purpose of Hope for Health. We have a birthright of vitality that was intended to underpin a

I never set out to start a program. I just wanted to help some people that i cared about experience better health. Although lots has had to change from me just cooking and sharing food with a few people, to enable upscaling and governance and financial management

One of our participants summed up what it is all about: “This is the first time that i have felt my body rejoicing.” Yiraŋdjil To me that completely captures the purpose of Hope for Health. We have a birthright of vitality that was intended to underpin a