Author: shahsanaa
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“The crisis is only going to get more urgent”: How Elise navigates a scorching summer day
Elise shared her summer story through the Summer Survey. Our Western Sydney Community Campaigner spoke to her about her experiences, which she shared here in her own words: I’m writing this in the coolest place I can find in my three-bedroom private rental apartment, sitting on my bed in my bedroom with a fan pointing…
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“It’s really frustrating”: Anjana shares her experience of teaching during heatwaves
Sweltering Cities spoke with Anjana, a teacher at an intensive English centre in western Sydney. Anjana primarily teaches students refugee and migrant backgrounds. In her own words, she describes the importance of communicating heat health information to students who have newly arrived to Australia: Teaching is really frustrating when there’s a heatwave. The students do…
