A Felt Experience and Empathy Lab at the UNSW Galleries offers an opportunity to experience constraint, entrapment and depression through the traditional indigenous story of The Man in the Log via virtual reality. It's an innovative, Aboriginal-led project that helps understanding of mental health issues. It also warns that you should not go into a hollow log in case you get stuck!
www.npywc.org.au/news/uti-kulintjaku-and-smiling-mind-guided-meditations-launched
Australian and New Zealand Paired Kidney Exchange Is going gang busters at increasing the number of kidneys donated / transplant patients into people that need them. Last year was a record year with 1/5 of all living kidney donors came from this program. The program allows friends and family who want to donate a kidney to a loved one but aren't a good medical match, to be paired with others in the same situation. The exchange also accepts donations from altruistic donors.Here is a program doing real good for those with kidney disease requiring a transplant.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-27/australia-kidney-disease-donor-transplant/103488392?
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