SI Riverside – “Oranges & Sunshine” Move Afternoon Report

SI Riverside hosted the movie “Oranges & Sunshine” at the Cygnet Theatre in Como on 12th June.

86 tickets were sold, for a profit of $771 plus over $200 from the Raffle.

SI Riverside has now raised enough money to cover our two Transition Scholarships, which assists Year 7 girls entering Secondary School with expenses such as books, fees etc.

The movie tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, who in 1986 investigated a woman’s claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children’s homes in Britain and shipped off to a ‘new life’ in distant parts of the Empire, right up until as recently as 1970. Many were told that their parents were dead, and parents were told that their children had been adopted. In fact, for many children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse far away from everything they knew. Margaret and her team reunited thousands of families before it was too late, brought authorities to account, and worldwide attention to an outrageous miscarriage of justice.