South Auckland fits no stereotype
The South of Auckland - a place where young people strive to ‘make it’ - a saying some of us use to refer to living a good life without a worry in the world.
The South of Auckland - some people think that it’s a place where both young and older people commit crimes on a daily basis. But we’re not like that at all. This is a place where we do our absolute best to achieve our goals and change negative opinions to positive ones.
When something bad happens here, the media gives all its attention to what has taken place but never pays much notice when something good happens. We’re full of humble, friendly and loving people from a variety of cultures. Yes, we know that South Auckland’s reputation can get a bad ‘rap’ with the media from time to time but many people never bother to find out about the good things that happen here.
Our schools are full of aspiring young students working to make a change for the better. The people of South Auckland are hardworking, just as hardworking as other people around New Zealand.
Imagine a place where we focus on the good that happens, where we acknowledge everyone’s efforts and create a positive atmosphere all around. We residents know that this is a good place where good things happen but they rarely gain as much attention as negative things do.
What the media could highlight are initiatives such as the ‘Behind the Wheel’ scheme, the ‘412 Project’, ‘Toko Collaboration’ and Mr T and his pop-up bike workshop or even the fact that De La Salle College students collected food to give to Te Puea Marae for the homeless and Mangere College students raised money for the Cancer Society Daffodil Day appeal.
South Auckland is not what it seems. The South of Auckland is our home - where we want to do our best to show everyone the good things that happen here.
Paul Lesoa is a Mangere College year 11 student.
Neighbourly discussion:
Is there a relationship between child poverty and bad parenting?
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Poverty is high alright and it comes down to many, many facets of why this is the case, price of food is high, the price of utilities such as power, rates, petrol are all on the rise these add to poverty. Poverty can be beaten (optimistic hope) when we decide to take action and when Government ...and all start to work together. Many hands make light work.
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If you consider governance as a form of parenting then yes there is, as governance holds a significant amount of control - this is both national and international. The current and historical mismanagement of resources and equality has its lasting impacts. Go to Manukau Courier on Neighbourly.co.nz to read more on this topic.