The
Marr Mooditj Aboriginal Health College offers training for Aboriginal
health workers. This is a three year course and following graduation,
the candidates can gain employment as Aboriginal health workers in
Aboriginal communities.
The
Remote Area Developments group was contacted by Marr Mooditj College
to offer classes on Environmental Health. It started in 1987 and has
run for the last fourteen years, with 15-20 students once or twice
a year coming to Murdoch University to attend the course. The course
usually runs for one day or one week depending on the availability
of time and demand for the course. Members of RADG take part in taking
the classes. The major emphasis of the course is water quality, water
treatment wastewater reuse, treatment and disposal, land management,
permaculture and various other subjects related to environmental health
and nutrition. The RADG has offered the same courses to environmental
health workers of Pundumurra College in Port Hedland, and the Aboriginal
Environmental Health Workers program in Geraldton.
Covered
in this course are:
Water quality and health
Organic waste management and composting
Chlorination
Sand filtration
Sedimentation
Bacteria monitoring in water
Food additives and health
Revegetation and health
Water quantity, use and heating
Desalination
Community development
Remote Area Hygiene Facility
On-site disposal of domestic sewage
Evapotranspiration systems
