One Arm Point Thumbs Up!

One Arm Point is an Indigenous Australian Community town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is home to the Bardi people. The young people of the region created their own song with the Pigram Brothers about how imporant good tucker is to a long life.
The Jimmy Little Thumbs Up! program is targeted to young people aged 5 to 16 in an effort to close the gap on Indigenous health where Aboriginal people are 12 times more likely to fall victim to diabetes than non-Indigneous Australians. During the workshop, new media is used to pass healthy lifestyle messages to students and community members. Language is used in many places as workshop participants create and record songs with the message Good Tucker leads to a Long Life. Videos are produced and given back to the community to keep the messages alive and hopefully stop so many Aboriginal Australians suffering from diabetes. Remember, Thumbs Up for healthy tucker!

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Music

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• Jimmy
• Little
• Foundation
• Thumbs
• Up
• One
• Arm
• Point
• Ardyaloon
• Pigram