22/03/2026
This has been weighing on my heart for a long time, and today I have to speak on it.
Knife crime. Gun crime.
These aren’t just headlines. These aren’t just statistics.
These are our children. Our families. Our lives.
The pain it brings… there are no words strong enough to describe it.
It’s the kind of trauma that changes you forever.
No parent should ever have to bury their child. No family should have to live with that emptiness.
So we rise from that pain, and we say we want change.
We create organisations. We speak in communities. We promise to make a difference.
And that’s a beautiful thing—because it starts from love, from loss, from a desire to protect others.
But somewhere along the way… something changes.
It becomes less about the young people,
and more about recognition.
More about who gets seen.
Who gets praised.
Who gets the awards.
And I have to ask—what about the young people we said we were fighting for?
What about the mothers who are still crying themselves to sleep?
What about the families who feel lost, just like we once did?
This is not about competition.
This is not about ego.
This is not about building a name for ourselves.
This is about saving lives.
The truth is, the system is failing us.
The government is failing us.
But if we turn on each other, if we divide ourselves, then we are failing too.
Real change doesn’t come from standing alone.
It doesn’t come from working in silos.
It comes from unity.
It comes from putting our pride aside and coming together—
sharing knowledge, supporting one another, lifting each other up,
and keeping the focus where it belongs: on the next generation.
Because every young life matters.
Every voice matters.
Every family matters.
We cannot afford to lose focus.
We cannot afford to let this become about anything other than the mission.
So today, I’m calling for something different.
Not more talk. Not more division.
But real unity. Real collaboration. Real action.
Let’s go back to why we started.
Let’s remember the pain that brought us here.
And let’s use it—not for recognition—but for change.
Because at the end of the day,
“United we stand, divided we fall.”
And right now, our children need us t
