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Congratulations to the Society for Mental Health Care - Anandaniketan
Equal Health congratulates the Society for Mental Health Care - Anandaniketan on receiving the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities. Equal Health is delighted and honoured to be working with this partner in West Bengal.
Giving the poor and equal chance
City Beach physiotherapist Rob Harper was among 52 volunteers from Equal Health who travelled to India this year to provide patients with free health care.
Equal Health provided free optical, dental, medical and alliedhealth appointments to more than 12,000 people through the program.
Help volunteers take health care to needy
Falcom dental therapist Sally McLeish enjoyed the experience of a lifetime when she went to India earlier this year as a volunteer with Perth-based organisation Equal Health, as part of a team of 51 Australian health professional volunteers.
The group provided free health care to more than 12,000 people in need, but the organisation needs financial support for future projects.
Speech pathology alumna Kristy Tomlinson named as finalist in 2011 WA Youth Awards
Kristy Tomlinson, who graduated in 2007, was recently nominated in the Educate! Edith Cowan University Award for leadership category at the 2011 WA Youth Awards.
Kristy was nominated for her inspirational work as a volunteer speech pathologist at an orphanage in India where she helped young people with disabilities. She also set up a charity to encourage and support future volunteer speech pathologists to explore this area.
Equalising eyecare in the villages
29 June 2011 - mivision July 2011 news (issue 59)
In the course of a day, optometrist Sue Strachanwill see 14 people at her state of the art practicein Blackburn North, Victoria. In rural India, she will squeeze in 200 patients over ten hot, humid, hours in the dark room of a village school.
Andrea gives gift of sight to poor
14 June 2011 - Southern Gazette - Belmont, South Perth and Victoria Park
After spending two weeks in India earlier this year, South Perth ophthalmologist Andrea Ang (32) returned to Australia knowing she had changed the lives of dozens of people.
Caring for poorest
17 May 2011 - Guardian Express
Mt Lawley resident Paul Clarke recently returned from India after helping provide free healthcare appointments to more than 12,000 people as part of an Equal Health volunteer team.
Making news in India
The work conducted by the Equal Health team in Trichy has been greatly appreciated and highlighted in the local news:
http://newseq.blogspot.com/p/video-gallery.html
Australian health professionals required for life changing appointments in India
Imagine not being able to go to the dentist when you have a toothache or to the doctor when you're unwell. This is the reality many people in India today face. They simply don't have access to everyday health services that most Australians take for granted.
East Timor and Australian Dental Volunteers
East Timor is one of Australia's closest neighbours. The capital, Dili, is as closer to Darwin than Sydney is to Brisbane. It is one of the world's newest nations and is also one of the world's the poorest. It needs our help ... now.
