The Indian Weekender and I am Woman are proud to have been a part of Auckland Peace City Celebration of Nuclear Free New Zealand event was organized by the Whau Local Board along with the members of the Peace Foundation and Waitakere Ranges. It was a day where members of the community came together in honour of the United Nations International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
The event kicked off with an 8 year old girl Mackenzie Mabey of Titirangi Primary School who inspired the Rainbow Peace Poppy Project was joined about 40 parents and children plus a couple of drummers, piper and a torch bearer for a Peace Poppy Parade through Titirangi Village.
Amongst other activities there were speeches by community leaders, cultural performances by Avondale College, Green Bay High School, the SGI exhibition ‘Everything you Treasure for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons’ and finally the Dove Blessing Ceremony where a large number of Peace Doves were released to mark the spread of the message of peace far and wide. The one thing that everyone came back with was a sense of pride at living in a Nuclear Free country.