More than 500 T-shirts designed by victims of domestic and family violence will be strung up across the Northern Rivers, as part of White Ribbon Day.
The hanging of ‘dirty laundry’ in public is a protest against the stigma surrounding violence in the home.
For the first time in the nine-year history of Dirty Laundry Day, businesses, community and council leaders gathered in the C-B-D to send a strong, clear message – “violence is not welcome in Lismore.”
“What we know it’s certainly higher than the state average sadly and in the programs we work in homelessness and some of the family support other programs we might find that you know up to half or more the people we’re working with and that’s thousands every year have experienced domestic violence.”
The t-shirts will be placed in shops and businesses throughout the region from Friday and will hang there for a week.
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