International Women's Day 2017
Cosette
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Happy International Women's Day!
Since 1909, International Women's Day has celebrated the respect, appreciation and love towards women for their economic, political and social achievements.
At BCNA, we know that we are not reaching everyone diagnosed with breast cancer. Some people don't want to be reached and we respect that. But we also know that there are other reasons we're not able to reach people such as cultural and language barriers. It seems appropriate today to share some of the work that we've doing to better support diagnosed Australians from multilingual backgrounds.
Recently, BCNA produced a series of new videos. In my language: my breast cancer story shares the breast cancer experiences of women in their own languages, with subtitles in English. The women are from Italian, Greek, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Arabic and Vietnamese speaking backgrounds. I encourage you to watch them. They're beautiful and interesting.
https://youtu.be/nORasVRutHQ
https://youtu.be/JEnbp3QWmFE
https://youtu.be/-fecOWq6sJY
https://youtu.be/sSXOND0dI4Q
https://youtu.be/vosGp-Jv1X8
https://youtu.be/1gQnbwTt7fwInaam Barakat is the mastermind behind this work and these videos. Feel free to contact her at ibarakat@bcna.org.au and tell her how great you think they are
In the online network, it's hard to tell if there are members from multilingual backgrounds. You can't always tell from someone's user name. For example, what does my user name say about me? Cosette is a French name from the novel-turned-movie-turned-musical Les Miserables, but I'm not French. I was born in a little island in the Caribbean (Cuba), emigrated to the US when I was two, and live in Australia. My first language, the language I still speak with my parents, is Spanish. My ethnicity is mixed European, indigenous, and West African.
Are you from a culturally and linguistically diverse background?
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@Cosette_BCNA
that is so good that we now have these resources to utilise when we connect with CALD patients.. thank you to Inaam for masterminding this....
I wonder If these are readily available online ? obviously because I don't need to use it I don't know? I know these will help women and men from CALD backgrounds to access information in their own language which would be so much more comforting that trying to understand it all in English.1 -
Good question, Soldier Crab. Our bilingual resources can be found here: https://www.bcna.org.au/understanding-breast-cancer/resources/bilingual-resources/
We've also got some Easy English resources here: https://www.bcna.org.au/bilingual-resources/easy-english/0 -
thanks Cosette I cheat now and save links like the above into a BCNA folder on my bookmarks and then I can find them quickly if I need them on the online forum.
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