Strand 3: Individual and Community Health
Outcomes
5.6 - Analyses attitudes, behaviours and consequences related to health issues affecting young people
5.3 - Anaylses factors that contribute to positive, inclusive and satisfying relationships
SLA:
5.6
> Maintaining connections
> Loss and grief: helpful and unhelpful strategies
> Reaching out: helping yourself and helping others
5.3
> Developing equal and respectful relationships - conflict resolution
SLT:
5.6
> Suggest positive strategies to deal with loss and grief
5.3
> Examine power, conflict and cooperation in different settings including friendship groups, in the school context, family and workplace
Skills: Communication and Decision Making
Task 1: Student Research Task
Students to be divided into groups of 5. Each groups is to be provided with one of the following 5 articles. These articles depict 5 different traumatic incidents that have occurred around the world. I have chosen real life examples to show students the link between resilience and the outside world. Each groups is to read the articles individually and then comment on the following focus questions. Student responses are to be represented on butchers paper in any way they choose. At the conclusion of this task each group will relay their storey and findings to the class.
Focus Questions:
1. From an individuals perspective how must these people have felt?
2. What types of emotions would these people have experienced?
3. Did they experience a sense of loss and hopelessness?
4. What would have been the communities response to this event?
5. What coping mechanisms might these people have used?
6. What support might have been available to them?
7. How do these people move on with their lives?
8. What was the overall effect on individuals and or groups?
9. Were new relationships formed?
10. What physical and emotional obstacles would these people have to overcome to rebuild their lives?
Group 1: Bali Bombing
Hardship persists for Bali bomb victims
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Updated Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:09pm AEST
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On Sunday, survivors as well as family and friends of those killed in the Bali bombings marked the sixth anniversary of the devastating terrorist attacks.For Indonesians touched by this tragedy, the pain remains raw and the past few years have brought more hardship. Yesterday Indonesia's Attorney General announced that next week he'd reveal when the Bali bombers would be executed. For many of the victims that day cannot come soon enough.Presenter: Gavin Fang Speakers: Gusti Anom, bombing victim; Ni Wayan Rastini, bombing victimFANG: When he plays with his children Gusti Anom can sometimes forget about the now infamous October night six years ago that changed his life forever. The security guard should never had been in Kuta when the bali bombers struck. But a few blocked streets put him in harms way. On his way home from work the 38-year-old was forced to take a detour. He stopped his motorbike outside Paddy's bar to buy some water and it was then that the world turned black. Waking up he found himself lying face down on the street .GUSTI: I felt a pain on my face and I couldn't open my eye. I got up and ran to a nearby hotel.. There was a lot of bodies lying around. I asked for a drink but there was no drinks so I found a tap outside. I went to wash my face because my eye was hurting and and then I felt blood coming down my face.FANG: The 38-year-old had a piece of glass lodged in his eye, burns to his arms and back from the blast and fallen power cables, and a shattered ear drum. Even now after several operations he still can't see properly from his left eye and his hearing will never fully recover. His injuries make it difficult to get work.GUSTI: It's been 6 years and everyday I think about that night. Sometimes I think about how different my life would have been if there was no bombing. When I talk to my daughter I can forget� but not for long, maybe the memories won't disappear until I die.FANG: Like Gusti Anom, Ni Wayan Rastini is haunted by the Bali bombings. Her husband was one of the 38 Indonesian's killed in the terrorist attack. He was a taxi driver waiting in the street. Now Rastini works with four other widows at a clothing company called Adopta that they set up together.RASTINI: I joined Adopta because I have to get money to feed my two daughters, I have to have a job because I don't have a husband anymore. We all have a shared destiny and here we can share our problems and support each other.FANG: Between them these five widows are raising ten young children. And its been difficult, not only getting enough money to survive but also explaining to their children what happened.RASTINI: My oldest daughter understood that her father had died but my second daughter didn't know. I told her that her dad had died but she didn't believe me, she said that he was working in America and she believed he would come back. I tried to make her understand, but only recently did she understand after she saw Amrozi on TV Sometimes she yells at Amrozi on the TV.FANG: For Rastini and others touched by the bombings this is an especial painful time of year. On Sunday, for the sixth year running the survivors of the terrorist attacks made their annual pilgrimage to Bali's ground zero. For every name on this memorial there are many more victims living everyday with the nightmare of the Bali Bombings. Many of those now feel angry at what they see as a lack of justice for themselves and the bombersPrison has done nothing to silence the three men on death row for the 2002 attacks. In recent weeks Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Sumudra again defended their murderous actions. And the delay in executing the men has left the victims angry.GUSTI: I ask the Government, don't keep promising to the Balinese people, to the public and to the world that they will execute them and then not do it� as a victim that hurts, the Government they defend the perpetrators but as a victim no one asks about my life.FANG: Ni Wayan Rastini also wants the bombers to be killed and like many other victims her anger isn't just for the men who committed the terrorist attacks.RASTINI: I feel really upset because the execution of Amrozi has been delayed. He is a coward, he did not stand by his word that he was ready to die, I feel really upset with the Government for the delay. I am ready, if they told me to kill Amrozi I am ready for it, all the victims are ready to kill them.FANG: So for many of the victims of the Bali bombings justice can't come soon enough for the men who brought such pain to their lives six years ago.
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Group 2: Asian Tsunami
Asian tsunami death toll rises above 23,000
More than 30,000 Indian villagers were reported missing this evening more than 24 hours after their homes on a remote archipelago were swept away by yesterday's tsunami.
As the confirmed death toll from the disaster climbed past 23,000 in nine countries from Indonesia to Somalia, rescue workers scoured the fatal shores of South Asia for corpses and rushed to bury the dead before disease could take hold.
The world's biggest earthquake for 40 years was set of by the slight shifting of a massive tectonic plate that ripped open the sea bed off the Indonesian island of Sumatra and sent a 30ft (10m) tidal wave of death around the Indian Ocean basin.
Thirteen Britons were confirmed killed, although officials say that the toll is likely to rise further. The Foreign Office said 10 British died in Thailand and one holidaymaker in Sri Lanka. In the Maldives, a male holidaymaker suffered a heart attack moments before the devastating tidal wave struck and a woman also died.
Empty airliners were leaving Heathrow to pick tourists up from the debris of the quake, which measured 9.0 on the open-ended Richter scale, the most powerful since 1964.
Pat Faragher, from Wembley, north-west London, returned home from Sri Lanka in her bare feet. With her husband Bill at her side, she stood at Heathrow in her socks and said: "We have lost everything - no passports, no papers, all our belongings were swept away. But we're alive."
Sri Lanka was especially hard hit by the tsunami and rescue workers struggled to cope with the aftermath. A military spokesman said this morning that the official death toll had reached 10,029 and the Tamil Tiger rebels said at least 1,500 people - and possibly many more - were killed by the wall of water which swept in on areas under their control.
In India, where 6,600 people are confirmed dead, Hindus scattered flower petals at sea and sacrificed chickens to pray for the safe return of hundreds of pilgrims washed off southern beaches.
Helicopters rushed medicine to stricken areas along India's eastern coast. Among those who perished were a group of 200 Hindu pilgrims who had gone for a holy dip on a beach in Andhra Pradesh.
In India - as elsewhere - most of the victims were children and elderly people who were too weak to run or swim through the swirling waters. At a graveyard in southern Cuddalore, mass graves were dug using an excavating machine to bury nearly 200 bodies.
"We must have dug some seven or eight pits and buried 25, 30, 35 bodies in each of them," said gravedigger Shekhar. "We lined up bodies next to each other in two rows and buried them. I've never buried so many in a single day in my life."
Some 3,000 people were thought to have died in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, an isolated archipelago just a few hundred miles north of the epicentre. They included 100 staff on an Indian air force base that was washed away by the tsunami.
Group 3: Thredbo Disaster
A decade after a landslide at the NSW ski resort of Thredbo killed 18 people, their loved ones gathered at a service to reflect and remember.
Family, friends and colleagues packed Thredbo chapel for an ecumenical service on the 10th anniversary of the landslide, which crushed two ski lodges just before midnight on July 30, 1997.
At the service, Father Peter Miller said the 18 people killed could be honoured by those left behind making the most of their lives.
"We move on, honouring the 18 by loving and caring for each other ... and drinking fully of the cup of life," he said.
"We gather as one of a kind who have been together during a difficult time.
"We come here because of life, because of love and of care.
"May that love and care continue and the memories and the love of the 18 always be fresh."
At the service, 18 candles symbolised the victims and the church bell tolled as each name was read out.
In a statement read to the service by federal Member for Eden Monaro Gary Nairn, Prime Minister John Howard said Australia joined with the Thredbo community in remembering.
"Ten years ago Australia mourned, prayed and kept vigil with families and loved ones during that difficult time and today we remember again those who lost their lives," Mr Howard said in the statement.
"We can only imagine the ... grief and loss experienced by families and loved ones of those victims and the continual impact on lives today.
"This 10th anniversary is an opportunity for us to collectively pay tribute to and give thanks for the lives of those 18 people."
Maureen Roberts, who has worked in Thredbo for the past 18 years and was at the village when the landslide hit, said she felt a sense of closure at the end of the service.
"Everybody was thinking about what happened that day and how it affected them," she said.
"It was just a closing, I think.
"A lot of people there probably wanted that to happen."
Ms Roberts said the service brought back a lot of memories for her, and it didn't feel like 10 years since the tragedy.
"(I remember) the feeling of incredible loss and sadness," she said.
"The total incomprehension of what had happened."
Local businessman Randy Wieman said those killed were greatly missed by the community and "their names popped up in conversation over the years".
Many old faces had returned for the service, he said.
"There's the joy of seeing everybody and the sadness of remembering what happened," Mr Wieman said.
The service was expected to be the last official commemoration.
Sole landslide survivor Stuart Diver, who lost his wife Sally in the disaster, did not attend the Thredbo service.
His sister-in-law Suzie was there, breaking down as she read out Sally's name.
The service was followed by a commemorative flare run down the Thredbo Supertrail, with more than 1,000 skiers and snowboarders taking part in an effort tipped to break records.
The run will end with 18 "big bang" fireworks.
Group 4: Lauren Huxley
THREE months after she was bashed, doused in petrol and left to die in her blazing home, Sydney teenager Lauren Huxley says she wants to come home from hospital.
But her father Pat Huxley, who today spent his 93rd day by her bedside, says while the 19-year-old's condition is improving every day, her recovery is "like waiting for a tree to bear fruit".
Lauren today walked 500 metres for the first time, with the aid of a nurse and another assistant.
Mr Huxley believes she will also be close to eating her first mouthful of food by the end of the month, but it could be some time before she returns to the family home.
"She said to me last night `Dad, when am I coming home?" Mr Huxley told AAP.
"I said, `Honey, when you can eat some food, and can get yourself to the toilet as well'."
He said it was the first time Lauren had raised the subject of her homecoming with him, after asking her mother, Christine, earlier this week.
Lauren is recovering in Westmead Hospital after the brutal attack in the family's Northmead home, in Sydney's north west, last November.
Part
of the home was destroyed by the fire and the Huxley family have since moved to a block of units in the same suburb.
Mr Huxley said Lauren cannot remember the attack, but it had "rocked the family right off course".
"All our concentration just goes right on to Lauren all the time," Mr Huxley said.
"Everything else has stood still ... except for Lauren."
"I haven't been doing emails or on the internet, nothing to do with any of that, I've just been at the unit here, I'll make some sandwiches and then back down (to the hospital) to see Lauren again."
He said Lauren is learning how to balance again and walked 500 metres, helped by a nurse and another assistant.
"They put a belt around her that's got a bit of velcro on it and little handles, and you hold on to the handles so it keeps her balance up and keeps her going steady in case she tilts to one side or falls," Mr Huxley said.
She can drink a thickened cordial, but is fed through a tube that goes directly into her stomach and is unable to go to the toilet unassisted.
Mr Huxley, a carpenter, said he quit his job to visit Lauren in hospital every day and his wife only works part-time.
The Northmead Bowling, Recreation and Sporting Club will auction sports memorabilia at a lunchtime fundraiser for the Huxley family tomorrow.
Group 5: Sophie Delezio
Sophie Delezio, the five-year-old Sydney girl who suffered horrific injuries when a vehicle ploughed into her daycare centre in 2003, was tonight fighting for her life again after being struck by a car.
Father Ron Delezio said his daughter was struck by a small sedan as she was pushed across the road outside her primary school on Frenchs Forest Road in Seaforth, in Sydney's north, this afternoon.
She was thrown 18 metres by the impact, an ambulance officer on the scene said.
Sophie suffered head, facial, chest and leg injuries and was airlifted to Sydney Children's Hospital at Randwick in a critical condition, an ambulance spokeswoman said.
The NRMA CareFlight helicopter landed in the grounds of the Balgowlah Heights Public School, where Sophie began kindergarten in February.
The little girl lost both feet, some fingers and suffered third-degree burns to 85 per cent of her body when she was trapped under a car that crashed into the Roundhouse Childcare Centre at Fairlight, in Sydney's north, on December 15, 2003.
She underwent months of operations, but captured people's hearts with the cheerful way she dealt with her injuries.
Task 2: Student Reflection
This task involved students writing three positive traits of resilience and three negative traits on a piece of paper. Each student will then tell the class their opinion. Teacher will compile a list of common traits identified by students and write then on the white board. Discussion to take place centred on the main traits that students have identified and their importance to both the individual and society in developing health stable relationships and a balanced individual.
