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Ninemani, Nayna, Nayana, Nayana, Nayana, Nayana, Gana Gunga Bina.

Hello, are you good?

My name is Tiana, my Ghana name is Gunga Bina, which means the caring one.

To begin, it's important that we acknowledge the country that we are on.

I'm on Ghanaian to the lands of the Ghana people of the Adelaide Plains.

We would like to pay our respects to the custodians, to the ancestors that nurtured the land

and the elders that have led the way for generations.

This is your land, this is your country, it has always been Aboriginal land.

And as this is a podcast whose reach is far and wide, we would like to extend our respect to the

elders of the girl power

This is the story of the girl who ran in every major marathon

Alira Jennings written and read by, 14 year old Maddie Dixon.

Alyra stares at the empty hospital bed, thinking about her grandmother who would lame their suffering.

Thinking about her grandma brings tears to Alyra's eyes.

She wonders if the diabetes will get her too.

It does for so many indigenous Australians.

As she packs up her grandmother's things with tears still falling from her eyes,

she feels heavy. It's like her whole body is sad, as sad as her heart itself, and she

wonders, will her life be cut short because of diabetes? She also wonders about

how to make a better future for herself and her community.

As she closes the door behind her, she decides the answer to her problem is to honor and

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