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World Wellness Group
WWG was founded by five Brisbane health workers with a vision of an independent health social enterprise that could deliver services and work on fixing systems that create disadvantage.
There's a long history of multicultural health programs being de-funded, despite positive evaluation, due to changes in policy and funding priorities.
As a result, the WWG founders, who have worked in various NFP and public sector professional roles in multicultural health and mental health for the past 30 years, decided to implement a vision of an independent health social enterprise that could deliver services and work on fixing systems that create disadvantage in the first place.
Why a social enterprise?
We work for a social purpose to create social impact: accessible and affordable healthcare combining the best of conventional and traditional medicine for our community.
In our experience, socially disadvantaged groups - including some immigrant groups, refugees, and asylum seekers - are amongst the most marginalised groups in our community in terms of accessible and affordable health care.
For this reason we channel the profits from our business into the provision of free or low cost health care to enable everyone in our community to access essential healthcare.
How our business works
We have three goals:
to provide accessible and affordable healthcare to our community
to pay our staff a fair wage
to channel any profit we make towards subsidising health care for those who cannot afford to pay and into illness prevention programs
No profits are provided to the directors of the company.
The success of our business won’t be measured in financial terms, but by the social impact we create:. how many people we can provide with quality healthcare they'd not be able to get anywhere else. We aim to make our unique model accessible and affordable to as many people as possible.
How do we make our services affordable?
We operate on the "pay forward" principle: our fee scale means those who can afford to pay a little more do, so that those who can’t can receive the same service.
We also provide pro-bono services to people seeking asylum who have no access to Medicare and often also no access to work rights.
We fundraise each year to continue this humanitarian work.