#BigFavour: Albina is grateful to see the sun again
We often take the little things in life for granted, that's why this week on the Big Favour, Albina got the chance to enjoy the things she so desperately longed for.
In case you missed it, take a listen to The Big Favour in the podcast, then read more below:
A Durban-based woman named Elle contacted me to tell me about Bongani. He recently approached her with a story of his neighbour, Albina, whose leg was amputated five years ago. Struggling every day to move around without a wheelchair, she has been trying to get someone to help her.
Albina is diabetic and since her amputation, her name has been on a waiting list for a wheelchair. Life isn’t easy for Albina as she has to rely on her friends and family to pick her up and take her outside to the toilet, or to the clinic. Just going outside to sit in the sun is a massive task for Albina.
Elle met Bongani through her Township Yogi Project - a non-profit organisation that offers free yoga classes to people living in townships who are suffering as a result of unemployment, crime/violence, HIV/Aids, TB, and Whoonga addiction
(083 780 5554 or visit their website www.greenshootfilms.com).
Read: Woman pays it forward to Durban baby home
The organisation would have loved to have donated a wheelchair to him to give to Albina, but having supported the Township Yogi Project mostly with their own personal funds for the last three years, it was just impossible.
Rev Peter Butterworth and his congregation from the St Winfred's Methodist Church (031 916 4603) do incredible work in the community and this is the second time they’ve assisted us on The Big Favour. They are currently involved in a recycling project where they collect the bread tags that seal packets of bread.
They then sell these tags and the funds collected are used to help people in need – in this way they are caring for the environment and helping people in need at the same time.
Through this initiative, Rev Butterworth was able to give a delighted Albina the wheelchair she so desperately yearned for.
Watch the heartwarming moment below:
If you’d like to contact Elle Matthews and her team at the Township Yogi Project, her contact number is 083 7805554 or visit her website www.greenshootfilms.com.
Thank you to all parties involved for making yet another dream come true.
