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Andy Cawston
New Zealand National Director
 "It is a requirement of Good Citizenship for all civic-minded persons to accept some responsibility for delivering the outcomes they expect in the communities in which they live. If this means that we expect to live in safe communities, then each of us has a responsibility to contribute toward that outcome."
Andy Cawston founded the Guardian Angels in New Zealand because he felt, as an immigrant, he had a duty to return a favor to a country who had
taken him and his family in, treated them well and given them a place to call "home."
"New Zealand is Paradise and deserves to stay that way. Wonderful, hospitable, warm-hearted people live here. For their sake, I for one will
do what I can to ensure that New Zealand remains a safe place to raise families."
Andy noticed a gradual increase in crime in New Zealand since immigrating from Canada in 1994. "The change was gradual, almost incremental: step by
step, in small steps. tiny changes, erosions in society's fabric: it's like we all began forgetting how to care, how to give a damn. We all
gave a collective shrug and declined to get involved. And, step by step, crime has taken a foothold."
In 2004, the police busted a P-Methamphetamine Lab "just down the road", and Andy decided to seize the initiative and mobilize. Realizing
that the Police were doing everything they could about crime, and so was the City, and so was Central Government, and so were various community
support groups, he decided that the one thing missing in the equation was the ‘Average Citizen.’ Ordinary Joe Bloggs: like Andy.
So, instead of complaining to the Police or to the Mayor, Andy took responsibility and contacted the world-famous Guardian Angels in their
birthplace of New York City. And so began a long journey, one of constant study, training, and organizing: a Project that consumes much of Andy's
spare time into the wee small hours of the morning.
Contact:
Phone: 027 334 0568
E-mail: Waitakere@GuardianAngels.org
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