So I bought the book and I looked at the front cover and the first thing I noticed is that it’s called Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence. Actually, my school was the pilot release, and we got to meet the director Phillip Noyce. I thought, I’ve got to read that book! I studied the film at school in 2002. When I asked her what inspired her to consider undertaking such a physically demanding location, she recalled a meeting with some of the girls' family in Canberra. 'I was at a Grandmothers Against Removal meeting and I met some of the family of Molly, Gracie and Daisy.

Sarah with Shari Pilkington (left) - Mollie's great grandaughter. On the first day she was accompanied by a community of supporters, including Mollie, Gracie and Daisy's descendants. Last Saturday, Sarah kicked off her own pilgrimage along the Rabbit Proof Fence. The girls made the decision to escape by following a 1300 kilometer fence home through the harshest of deserts. The true story told in both the book and film is of Mollie (14), Gracie (11) and Daisy (8) - three Aboriginal Australian girls forcibly taken from their home in Jigalong, Western Australia in 1931 and placed in an orphanage near Perth where they were to be trained as domestic servants.

Sarah Hyde in Perth, just days before embarking on the location of a lifetime. Sarah Hyde had long admired the iconic Australian film Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) but it wasn't until she picked up Doris Pilkington Garimara's book that she felt a strong call to action: Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence, she read. 17-07-2017 Following the Rabbit Proof Fence The story of three Aboriginal girls who followed a 1300 kilometre fence home through the desert has inspired more than just a movie.

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