AUSTRALIA
Border Mail
Melissa Cunningham
@MeljCunningham
10 Feb 2017
Ballarat will become a sea of colour in support of survivors of child sexual abuse in May.
Survivors and the community will join together for a week long event aimed at shining the light on child sexual abuse. The No More Silence week will run from May 21 to 27.
It marks the two year anniversary of the formation of Ballarat’s grassroots Loud Fence movement, which encourages people to tie brightly-coloured ribbons on the fences of Catholic institutions, as a symbolic act of solidarity with victims of sexual abuse.
It’s been another tough week with revelations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual abuse almost one in ten priests in the Diocese of Ballarat had allegations of child sexual abuse levelled against them between 1950 and 2010.
But behind the scenes, a community group made up Ballarat City Council leaders, counsellors and Loud Fence are working tirelessly to gather hundreds of photos, news articles, and short films documenting the journey of child sexual abuse victims.
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