SELECTED students at St Pius X School, Salisbury, have been busy helping to make “peace friendship dolls”.
The school was invited to take part in the state’s Q150 celebration, which aims to have 150 dolls completed and then given to deserving individuals.
Three students from each year level at St Pius X’s were chosen by their peers to take part in the project that involved them decorating the front panels of the cloth dolls that are now being assembled by an experienced doll maker.
Principal Lorraine Walker said children in each year level were asked to nominate three students from their grade who they thought would make good ambassadors of peace and friendship.
“Those students then took part in a ‘Fun Shop Workshop’ on September 1 where they designed and painted the front cloth panel,” Ms Walker said.
“They also got to choose the back panel, head and hair so their unique doll is currently being created by the craftspeople who complete the doll-making.
“They will also leave a message to be gifted with their ‘peace friendship doll’ and have their profile and photo displayed as part of exhibits of the dolls.”
Ms Walker said once the dolls were completed they would be brought back to the school for the children to see the finished product before the dolls are given to special people.
“That doesn’t have to be a child it could be an older person in a nursing home or someone who has suffered a crisis and it also doesn’t have to be to someone in Australia. It could go to someone in another country,” she said.
She said Friendship Dolls International and Lourdess the Doll Maker, with whom the project was associated, had worked closely with the United Nations on numerous projects.
