Pam Batkin

Pam Batkin has just finished 40 years of work as a social worker in Sydney. Most recently she was CEO of a community services agency in the very culturally diverse and vibrant South Western Sydney for 12 years. She is currently travelling with her partner for a year in Europe and the UK.

Recent articles by Pam Batkin

The world is watching

The world is watching

In a small dark and windy lane in Leith in Edinburgh I got into a conversation with an artist painting a bright yellow mural of a young woman on a wall. The artist told me she was painting Bisan, a young journalist, who opens all her posts with - Hey everyone, this is Bisan from Gaza and Im still alive. On my regular treks to the tram stop I watched over several days as the mural was finished in the wet, windy and cold Edinburgh weather.

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