Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that New Zealanders have become more engaged with the Muslim community in the year since a gunman killed 51 people at two mosques.
Answering the question that how thing have been changed she told that:
I think the awareness, the knowledge, the understanding that was built between the New Zealanders and our New Zealand’s Muslim community has been really clear to me, the days following, the weeks and the months, and that in a large part because the community opened the doors. I had New Zealanders telling me that they had visited the mosques for the first time, they had conversations about the faith with them, and that in itself was a way that I think many were changed by what happened on that day. (March 15, 2019)
Nevertheless the first memorial services, to mark the one year of one of the darkest day in the history of New Zealand, has been canceled due to health concerns that have been developing around the world since the Coronavirus outbreak.
