73-year-old grandma welcomes 10 refugees into home
Helen Fuller, a 73-year-old grandmother, has become an internet sensation after letting 10 refugees stay at her holiday home, after meeting one on a Melbourne train.
Mamamia reports Fuller had been travelling from Springvale to the City when she overheard a man, who happened to be a refugee from Afghanistan, telling another passenger how he hoped to take his family on a holiday outside Melbourne.
To Fuller, who had been looking for an opportunity to share her holiday home with a needy family, this was just the opportunity she’d been waiting for.
Fuller told Mamamia, “I just thought, ‘Well, he’s the person. So I just leant over and said, ‘Excuse me, I hope you’ll forgive me, I just wondered if you would like to use our beach house for a week and take your family down there’.”
The man, Abuzar Mazoori, who is a part-time student and youth worker, was initially a little cautious about taking Fuller up on her offer, but after some gentle prodding from the grandma he accepted and went to the beach house with his family.
Fuller was glad she was able to give Mazoori and his family the authentic beach-house experience and has reportedly been inundated with positive feedback.
Fuller told Mamamia, “People say to me 'I would like to do something like that' or 'It's something we should try and do'. And I am a firm believer that it is the small things that make a difference. There's often something you can do to offer the hand of friendship.
“If you do reach out to others, the small things do count.”
Source: Mamamia
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