Seniors Engagement Project (S.E.P)

Like any other Community in Australia, we have an increasing elderly population and as shown in many studies, minority Elders face double hardships when trying to access services.

Their lacking of knowledge about the availability of services, scarcity of interpretation services and translated materials is another barrier, not to mention insufficient of official language skills, restrictions on movement outside home, and lack of physical activities resulting many of them to experience poor health, and most importantly lack of cultural sensitive spaces, effective programs and services.

The short-term aim of this project is to fight isolation of seniors from Somali Australian community, but our long term goal is to provide culturally sensitive spaces, and offer the care, services and the support that the immigrant elderly population requires.

We will also engage and encourage local governments departments to be more aware of those group's needs and to take notice of what the service organisations like ours is doing for the elderly population.