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:owen glenn OWEN to the rescue? GLENN Owen Glenn, Founder of OTS Logistics Group & Glenn Family Foundation has pledged $8 million to take action against New Zealand's Family Violence and Child Abuse Statistics Statistics from the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse: - On average, the New Zealand Police attend a family violence callout every six minutes. - In one year, at those callouts, almost 95,000 children witnessed or resided in those homes! That's more children than there are people in Palmerston North, witnessing and suffering violence and abuse, every year. - Research shows the police only hear about 20% of all family violence incidents. - 85% of sexual violence is committed by someone known to the victim. - More women and children are assaulted in the "safety" of their own home, than in public. - Almost 60% of all reported violent crime in New Zealand is family violence related - Almost half of all homicides in New Zealand are family violence. - Women and children in New Zealand are more likely to get hurt by a loved one, than a complete stranger. OWEN GLENN HAS RETURNED to New Zealand for the launch of his much anticipated biography but more importantly he says he's back to support children and families and to raise attention to New Zealand's family violence and child abuse statistics and his commitment to reverse them. Glenn's Foundation (The Glenn Family Foundation) has been in operation for over 30 years and includes a vast array of projects from leprosy to child prostitution and trafficking but it is the New Zealand's high statistics in child abuse and family violence that are currently on Glenn's radar. "It is shocking to think in a beautiful country like New Zealand these problems exist but the growing statistics are alarming and it's simply not good enough. People don't realise that the cost of domestic violence and child abuse to the New Zealand economy is the equivalent of rebuilding Christchurch every four years – forever. It's a national embarrassment." Glenn has had his Foundation focusing on a project, which he launched in July in Otara, that centres on helping to build stronger communities. "I believe that if a community is strong, its people are strong. Strong communities means people care about each other, they look out for one another, there's a sense of pride in where they live and where they go to school and work. Strong communities mean less crime, safer streets, less domestic violence and children that are safe from abuse and harm. Children in strong communities grow up in loving families with supportive neighbours. In such environments children are able to engage in learning, and grow up to be confident, happy and productive adults and parents themselves." Glenn says he has been concerned for some time about New Zealand's growing statistics in child abuse and family violence citing an opinion piece he wrote about it for the New Zealand Herald in October last year. "It didn't raise a peep out of anyone so I'm going to 'put my money where my mouth is' launching a project that is centred on children and young people, their families and the neighbourhoods and community in which they live. The aim is, using Otara as the test case', to help the Otara community to provide its children and young people with a safe and supportive environment in which to grow and prosper." 48 | www.hermagazine.co.nz 20%95,000 85% 60%6 mins 50%