The community ownership of the intervention have been at the core of our facilitation and this has led to the residents discussing among themselves their limitations and possibilities before reaching out for our support. The discussion concluded with us bringing two diverse communities to support each other through the various resources each held. The Hong-Kong community did a presentation on the benefit of Tai-chi for arthritis and introduced the elderly Tamil community to a form of exercise they never participated before. Both the communities worked together to identify a professional Tai-chi instructor and the sustainability leading to a paid professional providing bi-weekly sessions for the last two months.
The wider impact of communities working together has been the exchange of information like recipes, personalised list of places to visit in their relevant home towns, identifying of common words in their language etc and increased mutual respect and residents considering to attend each others events.
The sustainability of the interventions depends on reducing barriers at various level and empowering communities to identify solutions.
