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Religious leaders are being urged to publicly support the COVID-19 vaccine to dispel a groundswell of coronavirus misinformation circulating among ethnic communities that threatens to undermine the vaccine rollout.
Doctors are also pushing for churches and mosques to be used as mass immunisation centres as public health experts warn that reaching culturally and linguistically diverse communities, who were hit hardest in Victoria’s deadly second wave of coronavirus, will be critical to the success of the national vaccine program.
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Melbourne s Ethiopian community initiative gives hand-up to businesses doing it tough during COVID-19
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FebFebruary 2021 at 4:40am
Yonas Shefaraw has come up with a program that employs struggling Ethiopian businesses to service 400 their community.
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Yonas Shefaraw knows no matter how hard things get, there is one word his community of mostly first-generation Ethiopian migrants will never say help.
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A Victorian Government-funded program is paying businesses in Melbourne s west to service 400 vulnerable community members
The project employs Ethiopian drivers to deliver 75 food boxes with traditional cooking ingredients, masks and sanitiser to 75 families
It also engages restaurants to provide 365 cooked meals to the the elderly or the homeless