What gives you hope?

Maureen | Te Tai Poutini

Maureen shares how small acts of kindness can go a long way in helping others find hope and purpose.

“We try and help someone everyday. We breed chooks. So we give free eggs to different ones we know need them. We’ve been cutting some old trees down and chopping them up and giving them away for people for the winter. And we’ve got three hens on ten eggs each at the moment.

We like helping people and we’ve met a few people here that are on their own and struggling. More than likely the women have lost their partners or husbands and we know of a couple that have been on their own for quite some time but they’re still not coping.

So we give them positive words to keep them going. And a couple of them, we’ve noticed big changes in the last 12 months, that they’re starting to think “well there’s more to life than being back in the depression and the sadness”.

I think you need more love, peace, faith, hope and joy in your life. If you’ve got that and then if you win Lotto, that’s a big plus, so you can help other people. Having faith is a big thing. Believing. Believe in the universe. The universe gives us the things.”