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Social Advocacy Assignment

   

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SOCIAL ADVOCACY
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Introduction According to WHO, “Vulnerable people are those people who cannot anticipate, cope with and regain from extreme unfortunate events”. The people of these groups are underprivileged and are always at higher risk and prone to the impacts of disasters. When people are exposed to miseries like economic decline, accidents, natural disasters, it is hard for them to withstandits consequences, unlike others who have easy access to different facilities like health, medical, and have easier reach to institutions to bail them out in crisis situations. So, these vulnerable people have to struggle a lot more than others. In Australia many people do not have access to enough opportunities and they face great challenges even to get basic things that are important for daily life. These vulnerable group of people are deprived of basic facilities like food, medical, education, employment, housing unlike the privileged groups. Many new migrants even experiences food insecurity because of different traditional diets, they fail to get nutritional value due to lack of knowledge about the nutritional value of food available in their local markets. The situations that makes people vulnerable are social exclusion, limited resources, inequality, poor government policies, environmental conditions, disability. Groups of people who are considered to be the most vulnerable people in Australia are:people living in rural areaspeople with mental illnessIndigenous peoplepeople living in low socio-economic circumstanceswomenchildrenolder peopleCALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) communitiesunemployed peoplevictims of crimehomeless peopleThough these groups of people need additional care, support and intervention they are left with negligence, less security and less support. These groups even face difficulties in birth, marriages and death registrations other than most of the people who gets registration on timely basis.
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CALD (Culturally & Linguistically Diverse)CALD simply stands for culturally and linguistically diverse communities of people coming from different parts of the world having different ethnic background, traditions, languages and religions. In other words, these are those people who are born overseas other than those listed by ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) as English-speaking countries. These countries include Canada, United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, USA and New Zealand.According to Australian institute of family studies, Australia is considered as a culturally and linguistically diverse country as people in Australia are originated from over 250 ancestries and speaks over 400 languages as at their home. Huge number of migrants comes to Australiaevery year, most migrants are from Europe and India. according to Australian bureau of statistics over 25% of people in Australia are born overseas. These people face many problems like unemployment or insecure employment, poverty, health issues and are not ableto access government services. limited access to government services is one of the reason thatkeeps CALD community to cohesively engage with Australian community. Even though the migrants are well educated and are job holders their income is very low and are vulnerable to poverty. Unemployment rate is much higher in recent migrants than Australian born population. Many barriers are experienced by these people because of which they cannot access government services. Some of the common barriers faced by different subgroups of the CALD community are as follows: People from non-English speaking background often faces inequality and discrimination additionally they are misinterpreted about their body language due to difference in culture and language.They have limited options when it comes to choosing services due to lack of cultural diversity.They lack knowledge of having proper understanding and accessing the available services.Many people are unwilling to join or engage in any services as they are concerned that they might be judged or stereotyped.They also have the fear of different government bodies like police, child protection, taxation, civil laws, immigration, housing laws, etc as they do not proper knowledge like the natives.
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