The paper went into the Fairland community and asked members this very pertinent question.
Ashleigh Whiteway: What makes women powerful is how we just get on and do something. There is no relying on someone else to get it done for us. If you have a need and a purpose you just have to do it.
Though the strength yielded by women is something that should be celebrated all year long, August, in our country, puts at the centre the power women have to enforce change.
With this in mind, the paper headed into the Fairland community to ask one simple question, ‘What makes women powerful?’ Though the answers may have varied, one thing remained true, the recognition that no matter what walks of life women come from, they each have the power within them to enforce change.