Two long-lost sisters have been brought together as part of a project that aims to heal Indigenous intergenerational trauma from the Stolen Generations.
Sharon Shillingsworth and Deidre Bolt are sisters in their 50s but have only just met for the first time.
It took the women years to track each other down, and while they had been connecting over the phone, a face-to-face meeting had eluded them until now. The institution operated under the authority of the state's Aborigines Protection Board and forcefully removed Indigenous children from their families and communities from 1924 to 1970.Like many of the boys in the home, Mr Carroll's life was plagued with psychological and physical trauma from the abuse he endured in the institution."He was in a lot of turmoil, he basically drank to numb the pain; it was just heartbreaking learning what he went through," she said.
A list of boys that were in the Kinchela Boys Home is displayed at the healing forum, including Deidre and Sharon's father."We've been talking over the phone for a few years now but had never seen each other face to face," Ms Bolt said.
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