We had a doctor Amjad Hamid, who worked in our local hospital. He is a very kind, compassionate man who reached out to tangata whenua here. He was received with all the aroha that you can expect in a community like ours that struggles to get doctors. At a personal level, he helped many of our kaumātua and helped heal my māmā. Islamophobia is deeply rooted in this country, and feeds off the same white supremacy that targets tangata whenua and black and brown peoples right across Aotearoa and the world. 