The Christ Church Cathedral rebuild has a funding gap of $114 million - and if $30m isn’t secured by August this year, the project will be indefinitely.
The Christ Church Cathedral rebuild has a funding gap of $114 million - and if $30m isn’t secured by August this year, the project will be indefinitely mot
Christchurch Cathedral under repair nearly 10 years after a deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked the city Photograph: Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images
In the months, then years, after the Christchurch earthquake, it was not Sue Spigel’s mind that needed healing, but her spirit.
What worked was her home high on the hillside above Governors Bay, where Spigel, 74, and her husband, Bob, have lived for 20 years. “It was this place … being here, cocooned from the rest of the agony that was going on, that really helped,” she says, sat with her back to a large window framing bush, sky and sea. Play Video