Manchester gives us hope!!

Today I found a Metro Newspaper from last week that I hadn't read. Before throwing it away I decided to read it through, so I wouldn’t feel too guilty about getting it but not reading it.

The news about the bomb in Manchester was all over it. I knew about what happened in Manchester through TV and social media. When I first heard the news, I just couldn’t believe it happened again, after my disbelief feeling I couldn’t stop thinking about the victims, and the family that were left behind. As a parent I shared the pain and emptiness, and pray that somehow justice will be done and that the families find comfort and peace. I can’t understand the brutality to end lives like this, no matter their age or if they were parents or children.

https://www.metro.news/manchester-comes-together-in-show-of-defiance/611122/

I felt very emotional reading about how the Community of Manchester came together in a time of such terror and pain.

It showed us how important it is our circle of support, when distress and tragedy strike us. Manchester came together to understand and deal with the situation. They came together to heal together.

It also shows the importance to know our circle of interdependence, when we are an interdependent society, we rely on each other, we have each other’s back, and we have mutual assistance, support and cooperation from others. In times when no one cares about each other anymore, Manchester proved it wrong. There is still a way to rely on each other, to count on someone, to count with your neighbor, to count with a stranger.

It’s so important to teach our children to create relationships in the community and to teach them about circle of support and interdependence.

Ask your children:

- When you won’t be able to talk to me (mum or dad), who are you going to talk to? Ask them.

Children need to know and understand that when they can’t count with you, who will be there to support them.

Establishing these relationships helps them feel part of the society as well as part of the community. This improves their sense of responsibility to the family and to the community.

Manchester showed the world we still can count on each other, and it doesn’t need to be just in times of distress.

Metro described of how people and hotels offered rooms for free, taxis and cabs offered free rides, and Food companies offered free meals. There were also people offering comfort or even a cup of tea. And of course there were all the fireman, police, ambulance, hospitals, nurses, doctors etc.

It was raised more than £1.2m to be donated to the families and two hero homeless who rejected their wellbeing and safety to help someone they didn’t know.

I cried reading this, it was a happy cry.

This kind of support helps us to move on, not to forget, but to move forward,together and stronger.

Diva Pinheiro

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