LOMBADINA Thumbs Up!

Young people from Lombadina created their Good Tucker - Long Life song to promote how to live stronger and longer.

Set in the beautiful Dampier Peninsula of Western Australia, Lombadina is an Aboriginal community on the north-western coast of Western Australia on Cape Leveque, north of Broome. The name is derived from the Aboriginal word, "Lollmardinard".

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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