Tennant Creek - Good Food Gives Us Long Life

The children of Tennant Creek Primary School wrote and recorded this good tucker song during their Jimmy Little Thumbs Up! workshop. They were so great, the performed this is a song with Thumbs Up! facilitator Shellie Morris for the Amsant Health Food Summit. Thanks to everyone at Tennant Creek Primary, Amsant and the Jimmy Little Foundation.
Song and video production Glen Heald.
The Jimmy Little Thumbs Up! program is targeted to young people aged 5 to 16 in an effort to close the gap on Indigenous health where Aboriginal people are 12 times more likely to fall victim to diabetes than non-Indigneous Australians. During the workshop, new media is used to pass healthy lifestyle messages to students and community members. Language is used in many places as workshop participants create and record songs with the message Good Tucker leads to a Long Life. Videos are produced and given back to the community to keep the messages alive and hopefully stop so many Aboriginal Australians suffering from diabetes. Remember, Thumbs Up for healthy tucker!