Vale Russell Manser
Announcement posted by IGFF (In Good Faith Foundation) 15 Apr 2024
The Survivor community has been devastated to learn of the untimely passing of Russell Manser.
Russell was a respected advocate for our community and the fiercest of protectors for our people.
Often society makes the mistake of considering a victim to be merely the sum of their trauma, while simultaneously ignoring the impact and consequences that trauma can have on a life.
Living with significant trauma is a burden that exacts a heavy toll. It can lead to many adverse outcomes and consequences.
These outcomes don't define a person's life, nor does the trauma, that predicated those outcomes.
No person - child or adult, deserves to be the victim of abuse.
However, sometimes an incredible person of character and strength finds a way to take the hardest of experiences and convert that trauma, into a force for genuine good and meaningful change.
Russell did just that.
Russell was a man of profound capacity and resilience. A man of resolve and a man capable of harnessing the most harrowing of experiences and use them to and try make an imperfect world better.
May we all be brave enough to take our experiences, good or bad, stand up in the face of in justice, and have a meaningful impact on the world.
It's what Russell would expect from us and exactly what he showed was possible.
Vale Russell Manser
Clare Leaney
CEO
IGFF & Co-Founder of National Survivors' Day
NATIONAL SURVIVORS' DAY
TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER2024
Australians can stand in solidarity with those impacted by sexual assault and institutional abuse by supporting National Survivors' Day on Tuesday, November 12.
Events around the country are held to recognise & commemorate the courage and journeys of Survivors of Sexual Assault and Institutional Abuse; their Supporters, and whistle-blowers across Australia. And we honour those who did not survive.
About IGFF
IGFF is an Australian national charity and Redress Support Service working with and for institutional abuse survivors, their families, carers and communities for nearly 30 years.
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