Going beyond thoughts and prayers


Ardern visiting a mosque at Hagley Park

WOMEN who lead showed us exactly what they are made of this past week. Following the terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch, the world finally saw how committed politics looks like in the form of Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

In similar tragedies, we are usually served with the outpouring of “thoughts and prayers” by political leaders. I admit that I am one of those individuals who would change my social media profile page to be ‘in solidarity’ with whatever tragedy is befalling the world at the time – until the point where I got too cynical to care.

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