is helping tamariki skill up for life
Sir John Kirwan may have shone a light onto mental health for most of his adult life, but five years ago, he decided he hadn’t done enough.
The former All Black – a New Zealander of the Year 2023 nominee – said he “woke up one day and felt like I’d failed”.
“I was the face of mental health and I had been doing all this work, but the stats were going the wrong way,” Kirwan said.
Kirwan was referring to the number of suicides in New Zealand, which increased from 504 in 2009 to 643 in 2018.
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