A THIRD multicultural community pop-up COVID-19 vaccination hub at the Ballarat Welcome Centre has appointment vacancies for Saturday, 11 September.<\/p>\n
The Hub is facilitated by the Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council, Ballarat Health Services and Ballarat Community Health and will be open from 10.30am until 3.30pm.<\/p>\n
Community engagement team leader Heeyoung Lim said BRMC is offering the service partly to support those with language barriers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did a simple survey with multicultural community members from South Sudan, Arabic, Togo, and Afghanistan, and realised that they didn\u2019t have proper information about vaccination,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew we needed to have our vaccination hub so multicultural people can be more comfortable with the environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt our vaccination hub last week, one of the women told me she was very grateful to get vaccinated on the day, and a lot of young people came, which was amazing, and said if this hub wasn\u2019t held, they probably wouldn\u2019t have been vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first pop-up vaccination hub last weekend saw 65 people receive a dose, while 112 people will be vaccinated this Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone worked hard at the multicultural vaccination hub last Saturday to help multicultural people and make us safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything was processed smoothly and we are very happy that we could help multicultural people here in Ballarat,\u201d Ms Lim said.<\/p>\n
BRMC are establishing a COVID-19 multicultural community champion network this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to work together to have a safer Ballarat and are looking for people over 18 with a multicultural background who have a passion for helping others and making a difference,\u201d Ms Lim said.<\/p>\n