Bidyadanga visit success
03/04/2023
BreastScreen WA's Senior Aboriginal Health Program Officer, Kaylene, travelled up North mid-March to support the screening of women in the rural Aboriginal Community of Bidyadanga.
Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community (La Grange) is located on the Kimberley coast of WA, 1590km from Perth and 180km from Broome. The Aboriginal traditional owners of the land are the Karajarri people. Bidyadanga is the largest remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia and is home to the Karajarri, Juwalinny, Mangala, Nyungamarta and Yulpartja language groups. The word Bidyadanga comes from a word for “emu watering hole” (pijarta or bidyada).
Kaylene had the honour of being invited into Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community to maintain and strengthen Aboriginal engagement between community and BSWA whilst promoting the importance of breast screening with the ladies in community before the BSWA mobile truck arrived for screening. Bidyadanga community engagement involved a Women’s Centre morning tea with pink fingernail painting, pink cupcakes, pink cookies and women’s business yarning time. This ended with two full days of screening and 54 ladies in total getting screened. Many of the ladies from Bidyadanga community expressed they are happy BreastScreen WA visits their community, giving us the name “Big Pink Bus”.
Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community (La Grange) is located on the Kimberley coast of WA, 1590km from Perth and 180km from Broome. The Aboriginal traditional owners of the land are the Karajarri people. Bidyadanga is the largest remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia and is home to the Karajarri, Juwalinny, Mangala, Nyungamarta and Yulpartja language groups. The word Bidyadanga comes from a word for “emu watering hole” (pijarta or bidyada).
Kaylene had the honour of being invited into Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community to maintain and strengthen Aboriginal engagement between community and BSWA whilst promoting the importance of breast screening with the ladies in community before the BSWA mobile truck arrived for screening. Bidyadanga community engagement involved a Women’s Centre morning tea with pink fingernail painting, pink cupcakes, pink cookies and women’s business yarning time. This ended with two full days of screening and 54 ladies in total getting screened. Many of the ladies from Bidyadanga community expressed they are happy BreastScreen WA visits their community, giving us the name “Big Pink Bus”.
Last Updated:
03/04/2023