Love a Little Local: A random act of kindness

A random act of kindness

Writer Elaine Davie

In many ways the Coronavirus pandemic has provided fertile ground for random, unsolicited acts of kindness, often anonymous and unrecorded, to occur. There is something very special about someone becoming aware of another person’s need and spontaneously deciding, without the expectation of anything in return, to share their own resources with them.

As we know, our children have been particularly hard hit by the lockdown. Not only was their 2020 school year seriously disrupted, leaving them with a sense of insecurity and displacement, but when the daily meal they received at school was discontinued, it pushed many into virtual starvation. Mothers and fathers lost their jobs and even when some of them returned to work, the children were left to their own devices in a sometimes unsafe environment.

Added to the uncertainty of on-again, off-again dates for the opening of public schools this year, concern has been growing amongst parents about how they will be able to provide their children with school uniforms, especially those who are starting primary or high school for the first time. The three PEP Stores in Hermanus – in the CBD, at Gateway Centre and the Whale Coast Mall – report that they have been putting away school uniform lay-bys for customers since about October last year.

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