Colleagues and community leaders explain the positive action inspired by life of south London teacher
Floral tribute to Sabina Nessa .Last modified on Fri 25 Feb 2022 17.47 GMTany people said they couldn’t sleep,” says Annie Gibbs. “I couldn’t sleep. I was constantly worried about this person out there. And just thinking about what the family must be going through. It was horrible.”
But from the ashes of those early grief-stricken days, a deep solidarity has arisen in Kidbrooke and the surrounding area where Nessa lived and worked, according to people who live there., there was a determination that the woman they loved should not simply be remembered as a victim of male violence, but for who she was, says Gibbs, the vice-chair of the Kidbrooke forum community group which helped organise a candlelit vigil for Nessa a week after her death.
At Rushey Green primary school, teachers, parents and children came together in grief – and fortitude, says Williams. “We speak a lot about loss in our school, because we’ve had so much of it,” she says. “We’ve tried to give our children a kind of literacy, to talk about emotions or feelings.”
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