A couple of winters ago I had the idea for HAND – Help A Neighbour Day. Everybody seemed to be snowed in and couldn’t move. The old in particular appeared isolated.

I passed the idea on to the JEP but they weren’t too enamored with it. I don’t blame them. It’s riddled with problems but the basic idea is sound. So I just let it remain in my notebook.

The basic idea is once a week/month we help those who can’t help themselves by just doing a bit of shopping or generally just helping those who can’t help themselves.

We need to connect with those members of our community who are vulnerable and allow them to contact us when they really need it help.

If anyone reads this and has any thoughts about it I’d love to know how to advance the idea further.