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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition World Aussie marathon drive to boost Aboriginal health AFP - Wednesday, November 10 Send IM Story Print Aussie marathon drive to boost Aboriginal health SYDNEY (AFP) - – A group of poor young men from Outback Australia is spearheading a push to find the country's first Aboriginal distance running star -- and boost the community's third-world health standards in the process. The four men, plucked from Australia's hard-scrabble desert communities, are the first graduates of a scheme by the country's most successful marathon runner, Robert de Castella, who hopes to uncover a competitor for the 2016 Olympics. Last weekend the runners, only one of whom is fully employed, all completed the New York marathon in their debut race over the distance, delighting de Castella. "Each young man overcame enormous odds and personal challenges ... to not just make it to the start line, but to finish the marathon," he said. De Castella or "Deeks", a marathon world champion and world record-holder in the 1980s, received 300 applications for the project's first year, eventually whittled down to the final four. For next year's edition, he is expecting as many as 10 times that number as news of the scheme spreads. He said distance running had minimal exposure in Aboriginal communities, where the main sport is Australian Rules football. "This is the first time they've even been made aware there's a sport called distance running and there's an event called the marathon," de Castella told AFP. "A year ago they had probably heard of the marathon but had no idea what it was. So they've gone from not even knowing what it was to running internationally." The four are the product of a number of training camps, including two at Alice Springs -- the nearest town to Uluru, or Ayers Rock -- and one at the government-funded Australian Institute of Sport. They also attended workshops on nutrition, first aid, kidney dialysis and the dangers of alcohol abuse and smoking, and will pass on the knowledge during school visits in a bid to boost notoriously poor Aboriginal health. "They're getting skills so they can have a better understanding and also they can go back into their communities and make a health contribution to a lot of people," said de Castella, who runs a school health programme. "We've got a big problem in Australia with the health of indigenous Australians and a whole host of different problems. It's an issue the indigenous people appreciate and want to change and take a lead role in." The traditionally nomadic Aboriginal population has plummeted from an estimated one million when white settlers arrived 222 years ago to about 470,000, mainly existing on the margins of modern Australian society. High unemployment, imprisonment and disease, and endemic drink problems, contribute to life expectancy about a decade shorter than white Australians, in an ongoing tragedy which successive governments have failed to ease. While many indigenous Australians have been successful through sport -- including 2000 Olympics 400m champion Cathy Freeman, and a number of Australian Rules and rugby players -- distance running has never been an outlet. Castella protege Juan Darwin, 21, typifies the struggle. Darwin lives in a crowded family at home in Maningrida in Arnhem Land, a remote and inhospitable corner of northeastern Australia. The would-be runner is unable to find work to provide for his four-year-old son in the town of about 3,000, which is deeply divided along tribal lines with 13 different languages spoken. "It's a difficult place to live and grow up in: a lot of poverty, a lot of alcohol, a lot of disadvantage," de Castella said. "All of these guys have done really well just getting to the starting line." Part-time waiter Joseph Davies, 18, lives with his parents in isolated Kununurra and enjoys hunting kangaroos, while Caleb Hart, also 18, lives in Alice Springs and is unemployed. Of the four only Charlie Maher, 27, a high-school Australian Rules coach in Alice Springs, is in full-time work. De Castella said the four had already registered a major achievement by completing the programme, and had sent out an important message to their communities. "This programme is about showing these young men they can do something they never thought about doing with their lives in running a marathon, and that's just a metaphor for a lot of other things they can (get) done," he said. "To some extent I don't care if these guys don't run another step. The message they've sent out already to the Aboriginal community is that what they're doing is possible." 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