An Albury resident from Uganda has welcomed millions of dollars of federal government funding to improve mental health in Australia's multicultural communities.
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In its 2022 budget, the government allocated nearly 18 million dollars for dedicated mental health support to multicultural communities and another eight million dollars for translation services to access mental health services.
Birungi Banoba said the funding was important.
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"I have been in Australia for two years now, in Uganda I was a business woman, so when I arrived here I started an English course at TAFE," she said.
Ms Banoba said due to accents, African English was "a little bit different" to Australian English, so a translation service would be useful for many migrant and multicultural communities to access mental health services.
"Maybe they do not know English, then that can help them to translate, so that they can understand better," she said.
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Victoria Ellis
Victoria Ellis grew up on the Border and loves reporting for her home community. She is a University of Wollongong Journalism graduate. In 2018 Victoria was awarded the Bruce Gordon Scholarship for Journalism and completed a 10 week internship with WIN News Illawarra. In 2019 she was awarded The Border Mail's Cameron Thompson Scholarship, where she completed a three week internship, before taking up ongoing employment in 2021.
Victoria Ellis grew up on the Border and loves reporting for her home community. She is a University of Wollongong Journalism graduate. In 2018 Victoria was awarded the Bruce Gordon Scholarship for Journalism and completed a 10 week internship with WIN News Illawarra. In 2019 she was awarded The Border Mail's Cameron Thompson Scholarship, where she completed a three week internship, before taking up ongoing employment in 2021.
