Recently two educators from the Hepatitis SA Education team attended the Tarpari Wellbeing Day. This family-friendly free biennial event for the whole community was held on 17 April at Memorial Park in Port Pirie.
This year’s theme was ‘715 Deadly Unna’ with a focus on increasing the number of people having an Aboriginal Health Check. This event celebrated Aboriginal culture and health, with over 50 agencies from across the state attending who provided information on health and wellbeing.
O’liver also came along for the day, and he was very busy engaging with children and families: lots of selfie shots were taken, and he even got to hold a snake at the animal stall. At our Hepatitis SA stall, we liaised with well over 100 people, with 78 people taking part in the hepatitis quiz with a chance to win a $50 voucher. If people didn’t know the answers it provided an ideal opportunity to speak about treatments and the hepatitis virus in general. As well as the quiz we had handouts for the younger people, with bubbles and bags of popcorn.
It was a marvellous success! Tarpari is a great, well-run community event, and one which we love being part of.
Gary Spence
Posted 16 May 2024
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