The Triple E (E-magine Education Everywhere) Campaign will see Youth and Community Centres in regional Australia fitted out with IT facilities that aid education and basic literacy and numeracy.
The campaign will focus on sustainability and sensitivity to the local community. The premise behind the Triple E program is that by providing educational facilities in Youth and Community Centres, it allows at-risk youth to learn in environments other than the conventional classroom. A Youth Centre in Kowanyama Queensland has been provided with IT facilities already. E-magine plans to also aid in an adult learning centre in the same community. E-magine hopes to fit out 100 centres in the coming 3 years, it has already completed 13. The focus for E-magine will be regional Australia in the coming years.
E-magine providing education to the Kowanyama community!
E-magine has provided IT facilities to Kowanyama in rural QLD. Thanks to the help of John Japp and Liz Cameron, aboriginal and non aboriginal kids in this community will have the ability to improve their skills in IT literacy and other educational pursuits.
The next step is to set up an adult Education learning centre within the same community. Plans are already underway to complete this project and Dr Sam Prince will fly to Kowanyama to be part of a congress of local mayors and leaders of the region to explore possibilities of Emagine working more extensively and sustainably within the field of education.
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E-magine advisors
Dr Sam Prince was able to meet with Dr Peter Sharpe in Canberra recently. The insights of Dr Sharpe as a longstanding and serving GP at the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service (Established in 1988) was pivotal when formulating Emagine’s plan to bring education and IT literacy to Aboriginal Australia.
Pearls of wisdom:
- Don’t always look to regional areas to help Australian Aboriginal people. The highest density of Aboriginals exist in cities such as NSW.
- In health care you cannot be as ‘paternalistic’ as Western medical doctors can sometimes be. Within Aboriginal health care, you must be guided by the community.
- Be positive, there are some great wins to be had in Aboriginal health such as the progress of maternal care at Winnunga
- The best way to help Aboriginal health is to start with education.
Dr Lara Weiland is an oracle of knowledge, she has spent approximately a decade in Aboriginal health and education and was kind enough to give her time to advise the Emagine foundation as to how best attack the issues surrounding Aboriginal health and education
Pearls of wisdom:
- The best way to help Aboriginal health is to first start with basic literacy and innumeracy. Basic education will then allow people to make better life choices and will flow onto better health outcomes.
- In order to have a lasting impact, you must build a long standing relationship with the communities.
Tania Major
Tania is a passionate advocate for Aboriginal education and welfare.
Pearls of wisdom:
- You must inspire kids to stick with education with strong role models.
- Get out there and do something, don’t tip toe around the issues.
E-magine up north!
Dr Sam Prince recently travelled to Cairns to address the ROCCY meeting, a gathering of Mayors, CEO's and stake holders from the Cape York region. Emagine Foundation Australia and its work was received warmly and has put in place plans to roll out in several Aboriginal communities in the coming year. Below is an article that followed in the Cairns Post.
