Mother and Son

 Mother & Son 

Today in Wanga I took probably 30 mins to find an article from google and write about it as our reflection section on fridays. So this is what I've found and decided to write about.This happens today ,Friday 13 August around 11:33 in the morning.

A Mother fed her son with milk with a toxic concoction and gave it to her young child while he was in hospital. The woman admitted that she was mixing eye drops and nasal spray with milk ,through a feeding tube before giving it to her son. She gave one at Dunedin hospital then at starship student hospital.

This really affected her son so badly that he suffered brain damage and had to be put in an induced coma.The father said initially fell under suspicion from authorities.

Dawn Raids 1970

 Dawn Raids - 1970 

On Monday August 2021 the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said the time had come to deliver an apology for the dawn raids, when officials would target people believed to have overstayed their visas purely on the basis of their ethnicity.

The dawn raids period is a defining one in New Zealand’s history,Ardern said. To this day Pacific communities face prejudices and stereotypes.An apology can never reduce what happened, or undo the decades of disadvantage experienced as a result, but it can contribute to healing for Pacific peoples.

To accept Jacinda's apology , she was covered by a symbolic request for forgiveness during the apology ceremony.Once you are covered in the tapa cloth you are not allowed to move anywhere , you might even have to go days and months without eating or drinking . Until whoever you're apologizing accepts your apology.