During Foster and Kinship Carer Week, Gympie Anglicare Children and Families team commissioned a lovely piece of artwork featuring thumbprints of carer’s, handprints of staff and Child Safety members (some of the little people also got in on the act), on canvas.
The artwork is called “Our Village for Our Children” and is about everyone playing a part in keeping children safe.
Foster and Kinship Carer Week was held in May, but the painting has only just been completed by artist Jane Nungarrayi Blunden who is also a practitioner with Anglicare Southern Queensland.
Jane said she had to do the painting in small portions then walk away for clarity, before coming back for connection and that is how the piece came together.
The painting will be hung in the coming weeks on the wall of the Gympie Anglicare office.
The Gympie Anglicare Children and Families team celebrated Foster and Kinship Carer Week with a delicious morning tea at the Gympie RSL.
Anglicare Southern Queensland is one of Queensland’s most trusted community services and health care organisations.
Founded in 1870 as the Brisbane Women and Infant’s Refuge, it has grown into an inclusive and diverse not-for-profit charity delivering a broad range of services, including aged care, foster care, homelessness support and mental health and family counselling.
More than 50,000 Queenslanders are empowered by Anglicare Southern Queensland every year.
