New Canaan

1988 March - 1990 July

Created by Mum and Dad 15 years ago
This program really took off in New Canaan. Jill put one letter in the local newspaper and had over 100 volunteers by the weekend! People, rich and poor, came to help. Two people would turn up for one of the daily six sessions each day. If they could not - they found someone else. Not only that – each day meals started to arrive for the family from a stranger. It took several weeks to find out who was organizing it and persuade them to at least reduce it down to one a week! This continued until we returned to the UK in 1990. Moira’s zest for life came through. She started to enjoy life. You could see it in her face, in her eyes and in squeals of enjoyment. We were very humbled by the experience – however we also became aware that so many of those people were greatly enriched by their experience with Moira. We heard story after story of how they had been helped. Some stories only become to light after we had left. The couple that Moira brought back together; the small girl who came to realize that, like Moira, she had done nothing wrong – even though she had been abused by a family friend; a family that learnt their father actually had a real caring side to his nature; the family that saw their mother come home ‘sparkling’ when ever she had ‘done’ Moira that day!