Palyaringkunytjaku – Towards Wellbeing

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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Palyaringkunytjaku – Towards Wellbeing is the brain child of Inawantji (Ina) Scales, a young Pitjantjatjara woman from the APY Lands. Ina has seen too many family and friends, too many Anangu (people from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands) die from diet related illnesses. Ina wants to give Anangu the same opportunity Hope For Health has given Yolngu in the top end.

In 2016 Ina met with Damon Gameau, the founding director of the Mai Wiru Sugar Challenge Foundation. She told him of her sadness from watching so many people become ill and pass away, she also told of her personal experience from visiting the two week health retreat and the happiness she felt at now understanding the solutions. Ina asked Damon for his help, and the Foundation’s help, to share her experiences with other people on the APY Lands.

Here we are today, raising funds to send 10 senior and influential women to an intensive health and nutrition retreat where they will learn and be able to personally experience firsthand, the benefits of healthy eating and living. By providing a culturally appropriate setting with language interpretation, we will free participants to focus, distraction free, on learning the extensive information that will be provided. These strong community leaders will then be able to return to community to share their experiences and become healthy living champions.

This is a 2 week trip with an interpreter and staff member to support the women through their learning and experiences, and further to be able to support the women on their return to community. This will also ensure longer lasting results and help participants maximise their learnings and minimise any stumbling blocks they come across.

Our aim is to have an intensive and immediate impact for these women, enabling them to experience the benefits of healthy eating and living, and to expand their understanding of the impacts of foods on their bodies, to understand the how and why foods have such influence over us. In their roles in community they can then spread the word about their positive experience and help others make healthier choices.

The participants are being selected based on their location and their capacity to influence on their return. As a result, these women will become healthy living champions, sharing their knowledge and experience in their regions.

GREAT NEWS – THANKS TO YOU WE HAVE ALREADY RAISED $20,000 TO PUT TOWARDS PALYARINGKUNYTJAKU – WE ARE OVER HALF WAY THERE!

To make this program fly we need your wonderful support to get there!

We know you’re all very busy people and this is why we appreciate your help more than you can know! Here is a list of 10 things that you could do to help us make Ina’s dream of Palyaringkunytjaku – Towards Wellbeing a reality.

All donations are tax deductible.

Check out a lesson in language by Damon and Zoe. Like with many people, ‘Palyaringkunytjaku’ is not an easy word to say, yet the passion for what we are doing is strong.

The Mai Wiru Sugar Challenge Foundation is an indigenous community-led initiative, implementing nutrition programs in central Australia’s remote APY Lands. After two years of consultation, and multiple visits from nutritionists to indigenous communities, the team are working on three key projects: opening healthy living cafes, funding permanent nutritionists on the ground, and intensive nutrition workshops.

Melbourne filmmaker Damon Gameau embarked on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived, or promoted to be ‘healthy’. Damon’s now acclaimed documentary The Sugar Film raises awareness of the hazards of any diet containing too much sugar. In making the film Damon included a segment about an innovative health program initiated by Indigenous communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara(APY) Lands, where stores were stocking healthy foods and nutritionists were advising customers on the best food choices. Damon determined to give back to the APY communities who featured in That Sugar Film by supporting them in their mission to take control of their own nutrition and improve the health status of Aboriginal families on the APY Lands.

Damon founded the Mai Wiru (Good Food) Sugar Challenge Foundation, a not-for-profit enterprise working with APY communities in an indigenous-led initiative to improve their health.

The health challenges of Aboriginal people are well documented, with current research identifying a 10 year gap between the life expectancy of indigenous and non-indigenous males and indigenous and non-indigenous females. The report published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare : Indigenous Health (2014) found that ‘The largest gap in death rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was in circulatory disease deaths (22% of the gap) followed by endocrine, metabolic and nutritional disorders (particularly diabetes) (14% of the gap)’.

We are thankful to those who have already fund-raised for Palyaringkunyjkaku and are rapt to advise that we have already raised $20k for the project. Special thanks to Byron Bay Lighthouse Run participants who provided a whopping $13,500 of this.

You can start your own campaign to raise money for Palyaringkunytjaku – with a goal for one of the impact levels below:

What happens if we get more or less than $35,000?

By hitting $35,000 (combined with the $20k already raised) we can make Ina’s dream a reality and take 10 participants from the APY Lands on this program, it means Palyaringkunytjaku can go ahead as Ina hoped. There are always many people from the APY Lands who would benefit from this experience, therefore the amount we raise will directly impact on the number of people Ina and the Mai Wiru Foundation are able to support.

If you would prefer to make a donation by bank transfer/direct deposit, please see our bank account details below. Please advise by email – [email protected] – when donation is made so we can issue a tax receipt. Thank you.

Account Name: Mai Wiru Sugar Challenge Foundation Bank: Suncorp BSB: 484 799 Acct No: 507433042 Description: Please enter your email address

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