WITH this week being Harmony Week, there’s never been a better time to highlight the importance of foster caring and spreading the message of acceptance and love for all.

Few people have embraced that message better than Victorian woman and foster carer Pauline Oliver-Snell and her wider family. The Hamilton-based carer has fostered more than 100 children over 25 years, and has compassion running through her veins, after being born into a family of compassionate foster carers before her.