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An informative and entertaining day was held on National parks Rodd island on thurs 20/3/08 with 110 men attending. There was preventative health info, general health stalls, healing, nutrition to name a few. Thanks to major sponsors Mission Australia, Care Connect and South East Sydney and Illawarra Area Health. Appreciation Awards were made to Simon Dirs from Souths Care and Mark Carroll from Parole for support to Babana and the community. There were also various stalls from Aboriginal medical service and Medicare and workshops held including David Leid leha on Gamarada healing and David Peachey from Souths Cares and ex Footie star. One of the best days so far.
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