The Star: March 21, 2019

The Star Thursday March 21 2019
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NEWS
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Student starts chain of love movement
Schools from
across NZ
and Australia
get involved
• By Julia Evans
SUJEAN IN was protesting
against climate change when she
and thousands of other students
were evacuated from Cathedral
Square on Friday.
The St Margaret’s College head
girl did not know what was going
on.
She just listened to the
instructions of a friendly female
police officer, and when she
found out about the terror attack
which had devastated the city,
she knew students would need an
outlet to help.
“Young people can often feel
lost as to what you can do when
this kind of thing happens.”
She started the Paper Chain
of Love and it has been added
to by students from around
Christchurch, New Zealand
and Australia – each link with a
message of support.
“It came from the idea that all
of us students are connected and
that love is stronger than hate
. . . everyone in Christchurch is
interlinked and we share a love
for each other in spite of the
ugliness of Friday,” Sujean said.
“I wanted to create something
to represent that. What they did
was try and tear our city down,
like it was made of paper, but it’s
stronger than that.”
Her idea has taken off.
Students from St Andrew’s,
Marian, Villa Maria, St Bede’s,
Catholic Cathedral, Christ’s
and St Thomas’ of Canterbury
colleges, as well as Selwyn House,
Middleton Grange, Avonside
LOVE: Sujean In
organised the
Paper Chain of
Love movement
for students.
(Above) –
The chains
have been
delivered to the
memorial at
Deans Ave.
Girls, Christchurch Girls, Rangi
Ruru, Cashmere, Papanui,
Darfield and Shirley Boys high
schools are also making chains.
Support has also been shown
for the initiative at Auckland’s
New Zealand College of
Chiropractic, St Oran’s College
in Lower Hutt, Gisborne Girls’
High, Timaru’s Craighead
Diocesan, Waimate High, St
Hilda’s Collegiate and Otago
Girls’ High in Dunedin,
Hamilton’s Waikato Diocesan
School for Girls, and Masden
Collegiate School and Queen
Margaret School in Wellington.
Meanwhile, in Australia,
Loreto College in Ballarat,
Victoria, Melbourne’s Ivanhoe
Girls’ Grammar and Mentone
Girls’ Grammar, Our Lady of
Mercy College in Parramatta and
Meriden School in Sydney are
making chains.
The chains were delivered to
the memorial at the Deans Ave
cordon during Tuesday’s Students
Uniting in Love vigil and they
will put more chains around the
other sites tomorrow.
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