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Communities in the Eastern Goldfields have been inspired to change following a three-year health project.The Western Desert Kidney Health Project set out to improve the health of Aboriginal people, particularly in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of renal disease and diabetes, both of them rife in the region.

What has come out of the project is much more than simply better health.

Singing, dancing, painting, growing vegetables, doing more exercise, learning how to cook healthy food, even opening shops with healthy food to sell are some of the wide-ranging results of the project led by UWA medical researcher Christine Stokes.

Associate Professor Stokes is at the Rural Clinical School of WA, based in Kalgoorlie.

You can read the full story of the project in the next printed issue of UWAnews on 30 September. But we wanted to share with you this video of children in the Eastern Goldfields schools, both Indigenous and non-indigenous, who have been inspired to change.