MAKING A STAND: A large white ribbon was erected onto the wall of St Andrew’s Church yesterday to mark White Ribbon Day. The White Ribbon campaign in New Zealand is celebrated on November 25 each year. It is an amalgamation of the White Ribbon Day movement in Canada and the United Nations International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women. Introduced here in 2004, the aim of the campaign is to eliminate men’s violence towards women encouraging men to take ownership of the issue in relation to their behaviour. This year, the focus of the campaign is on promoting respectful relationships. The White Ribbon (pictured) is a joint venture between St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Gisborne, Family Works Tairawhiti and Tauawhi Charitable Trust. It will be erected annually during the White Ribbon campaign on the church, corner of Childers Road and Cobden Street. Parish members saw this as an opportunity to strengthen their relationship with Presbyterian Support East Coast, and Family Works Tairawhiti, and to stand together with Tauawhi Charitable Trust with commitment to eliminate violence – to make homes and the community here safe and free from violence. From left are youth and family violence social worker Gareth Thomas, Family Works Tairawhiti social services manager Alica Richardson-Marr, St Andrew’s acting parish clerk Jenny Lawton and St Andrew’s minister Reverend Fraser Paterson. Picture by Liam Clayton
A LARGE white ribbon was put on the wall of St Andrew’s Church yesterday to mark White Ribbon Day. The White Ribbon campaign in New Zealand is celebrated annually on November 25.
It is an amalgamation of the White Ribbon Day movement in Canada and the United Nations International Day