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Chinese groups find different ways to participate in WHD
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epatitis SA’s World Hepatitis Day activity, Let’s Go Viral, managed to engage with the Chinese community in different ways. While some community groups have valiantly returned to face to face activities, as some TAFE English classes have done (see p2), other groups have remained cautious.
One organisation we contacted was unable to participate because they had still not reactivated their group activities. Another group offered to include information in their newsletter. The Overseas Chinese Association (OCA) lunch group and a TAFE class accepted our invitation to provide information and
The lucky winners of the OCA quiz
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facilitate their members’ participation in the Let’s Go Viral quiz. The OCA group participated in the quiz in a socially-distanced arrangement. The 40 participants were part of a weekly “hybrid lunch” activity which combined takeaways and socially distanced sit-downs. To minimise contact, for the peace of mind of participants, the OCA lunch organisers acted as intermediaries for Hepatitis SA. The key lunch organiser received an information briefing from Hepatitis SA staff the day before the activity. She was then provided with printed information and quiz sheets based on the online quiz. On the day itself, lunch participants were divided into smaller groups in separate rooms where the organisers went through the information with them before handing
