Key to the Future: Show and Tell Workshop

I brought bullet holes today because one of my strong memories of working at WHW was on a project called Talking Health. It was a story of some refugee women from different parts of the world who came together and were supported by WHW to tell their story and we developed that into a workshop that was taken to a variety of service provider settings.

International Women's Day Jen Daddow Photo: Georgia Metaxas

The woman who stood out in my mind, well they all did, but the [woman who is reason I brought these] bullet holes - was just a normal woman like me. Except she was a lawyer so there was already that difference, but she was in Sarajevo when the fighting broke out and she came out to Australia with nothing and couldn't get work and so forth and so on.

I remember the day she told her story about when the bullets started flying through the bedroom window and she still had the dress with her with the bullet holes in it and it seemed to be an experience [that could happen to anybody, and one] that I could relate to. they all had stories of violence, but hers particularly stood out.

So that's why I brought the bullet holes. The profound effect that hearing those women's stories had on me and the privilege it was to hear those stories and to watch the effect they had on other people as we went round to different service providers… it was a great project.

JEN DADDOW

Women's Health West

Key to the Future: Show and Tell Workshop