Mobile Phones to Connect Refugee Women
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Refugees have a huge cultural distance to cover on arrival in Australia – a transition that generates a demand for knowledge of information that we take for granted. Offering peer support training and free call mobile phones to small groups of refugee women is lowering communication barriers and strengthening communities.
Dr Dennis Wollersheim is from the Department of Health Information Management at La Trobe University.
Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
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