Ethnic Ability Radio Show:

Meet the Team:
    Linda Rawlings, Zel Ischel & their guests

This radio program is sponsored by the Ethnic Disability Advocacy Centre and produced by Zel Ischel who works at the Centre as a Systemic Advocacy and Projects Officer.

Zel is very pro-active and as well as being blind herself heads up a team of keen enthusiasts who bring their guests to the station every week to give advice and information in an effort to help those listeners who may have a disability themselves, or have someone they know or someone in their family with a disability.

You can read more about the Ethnic Disability Advocacy Centre on their website www.edac.org.au or email zel@edac.org.au

EthnicAbility explores issues affecting people with a disability from an ethnic background. Topics covered include:

• Individual and systemic advocacy
• The Disability First Stop Project
• Guardianship of people with disabilities
• Vicinity
• And much much more.
  

We will be speaking to people with a disability from an ethnic background, service providers, carers, parents of children with a disability, and we may even talk to you !

So don’t forget to switch on to 95.3 6EBA FM every Tuesday at 11:30 am and every other Tuesday atthe same time.  But …. If you miss EthnicAbility, you can hear it on-demand at www.edac.org.au, Click on “Radio Program” and select the show you want to listen to.

Tuesday 26th August 2008 saw celebrations happening in the 6EBA's Maylands studio as EthnicAbility went to air for their 100th show.

Program presenter and producer, Zel Ischel attended the  special event along with veteran radio personality Tony Serve and many others from the Ethnic Disability Advocacy Centre.

Executive Director of the Office of Multicultural Interets, Ellis Griffiths  and Minister for Multiculturalism, the Hon Ljiljana Ravlich also took part in the program.

Station Chairman Nick Nikolich and Maylands Training Coordinator  Dani Cinnamon were happy to see such a positive and friendly group of people.

Service awards were presented to Sanja Vuksanovic and Tony Serve for their involvement with the program.
 
EthnicAbility highlights issues that concern people with disabilities who come from an ethnic background.

You can hear EthnicAbility every Tuesday from 11:30am to noon.