Stop Abuse Now
The lady in the middle is one of our artists, Seraline Tromp. We call her Pumi. She is protecting her baby against abuse in our village of Nieu Bethesda. The many hands say “It’s enough now. Stop abuse now. The faces are very sad, because of all the things that they lose through this abuse, like their children are going to the welfare, or losing their childhood through being afraid all the time. We have made the hands all the colours we could find, to show that it is not happening just to one group, but to all nations worldwide. The blades are like a wheel that is cutting through the abuse. This happened after a programme we had at the Centre about abuse. After the programme we started to tackle seriously the problems of alcohol abuse in our community. It makes us sad to look at this quilt, and to talk about it. (Sold)
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