Swansea students have teamed up with Sink Swansea to help publicise an end to violence against women.
A giant mural has been revealed on Mumbles Road to raise awareness of the White Ribbon Campaign amongst students and residents in the city. Swansea University and Swansea Metropolitan Students’ Unions have teamed up with Sink Swansea artists to help publicise the campaign’s call for an end to violence against women.
The brightly coloured mural, depicting the image of a heron clutching a white ribbon, has been drawn on the graffiti wall on the Recreation Ground in Brynmill and has been carefully designed by artist Dave Long to represent the ideals behind the White Ribbon Campaign. Long said he believes “the image has the ability to stop local residents in their tracks”.
Joint campaign organiser Becki Warrillow, Women’s Officer at Swansea University Students’ Union hopes the mural will “influence passersby and make people think about the effects of domestic violence.”
This is the first campaign Swansea University and Swansea Metropolitan Students’ Unions have run together and Michael Twitchen, Welfare and Student Rights Officer at Swansea Met has welcomed the idea, saying “My initial thoughts were that the campaign was for women about women.
“I was wrong, it about more than raising awareness, it’s about making a stand to working towards elimination of violence against Women, men and same sex partners. Both our Students’ Union can offer trusted support and sign posting for those who are in need.”
The White Ribbon campaign was started by a group of men in Canada who felt they had a responsibility to speak out to end violence against women. The white ribbon is now worn by people across the globe to support the cause.