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The YCA actively
promotes and encourages achievement within the Yemeni community - and has
itself been responsible for a number of laudable successes during its brief
but successful life. These include:
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The
Yemeni Women's Luncheon Club was a finalist for the "Sandwell Women of
Achievement 2005" for overcoming adversity.
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Educational Leaflets for the Yemeni Community & Others |
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Blood Pressure
(English Language) |
Insight into the
Yemeni community
(English Language) |
Diabetes
(English Language) |
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Blood Pressure
(Arabic Language) |
There have been many informative
and educational leaflets produced that
have been targeted to specific needs of the Yemeni Community.
For the full list of leaflets available for download/viewing
please visit this page.
(click on PDF icons to download and open electronic
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Diabetes
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Health Tips for
travelling to Yemen
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Note: To read any of the
files you will need a PDF file reader, such as the one which can be obtained free
from Adobe.com - click this link:
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Tips for Healthy
Eating
(Arabic Language) |
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| The YCA has created a set of laminated
credit-card sized cards for the Yemeni community.
After consultation, one of the difficulties identified within
the community was making an appointment with the local GP, due to problems
with identifying the need for an interpreter. This resulted in the YCA
Health Development Officer (HDO) being inundated with requests from
non-English speaking members of the community to make appointments on their
behalf. After consulting with the elders it was agreed that a GP
communication card would be an ideal solution.
The following
inscription appears on the card:
"I am unable to speak
English and would like to see a doctor. Would you please book an
appointment for me to see the doctor with an Arabic-speaking (preferably
Yemeni) interpreter. Thank you" |
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Yemeni
Cookbook
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A six-month
project which ran from February to July 2004 involved the creation of a
Yemeni cookbook.
This project
consulted and made use of the considerable expertise and experience of many
Yemeni women in the community, and their families, in helping to read,
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for the book, and copies distributed to health professionals such a Diabetic
nurses and dieticians, in order to help them use a better awareness of the
Yemeni diet when planning treatments. In all, over 500 copies of the
cookbook have been printed and distributed. |
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Active Life Course |
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This 12-week
accredited course (running from January-April 2006) concentrated on basic
skills focussed on raising awareness of healthy living and safe exercise.
The course was well received and received extremely positive feedback,
particularly from female participants. |
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Topics covered in
the course included:
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Health & Safety
associated with exercise |
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Warming up and
cooling down |
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Contra-indicated
injuries |
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Sport, exercise
and injury |
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The value of
exercise |
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Healthy Eating |
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Lifestyle and
Health |
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Coronary Health Risk Screenings
Held in West Bromwich in February and March
2006, and open to all members of the community of both genders of age 25 and
over, this offered free screening tests to identify individuals at risk of
coronary heart disease. |
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included blood pressure checks, blood glucose monitoring, cholesterol
testing, body mass index tests and health history checks. The final
results were assessed by a licensed medical practitioner, and advice
(including GP referrals) given to all participants.
Overall, 85 male and female individuals participated in
the screening tests, and it was identified that a significant number of male
elders were at significant risk of coronary heart disease. |
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Gardening
Project
Garden work was carried out by elder male members of the Yemeni community in
the grounds outside the Greets Green Access Centre. This activity
proved to be highly popular with the participants, who benefited from the
physical activity required. |
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Summer Swimming Project
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Swimming sessions were held between June 2005 and October 2005 at Tipton
Leisure Centre (Tipton) and Haden Hill Leisure Centre (Cradley Heath), with
the aim of allowing women and young girls to participate in culturally
sensitive physical activities. The sessions also incorporated
aqua-aerobics.
The
sessions, partly funded by Sport England and the Scarman Trust, proved to be
very popular, with 25 young people and 35 women accessing the project.
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