Why we started.

No-one is going to argue that the past couple of years has been tough on all of us, and especially those of us who have been separated from our loved ones and are restricted in how we can see them. After almost two years, last month I managed to return to the UK to see my parents and it sparked an idea. You see they are both in their 80s, amazing people, proud but need some help. My dad has early-stage dementia and my mother is struggling under the pressure. They have professional help that visit them daily but in the two weeks that I was with them, I was amazed at the tasks that I could do for them that made their lives easier. Everything from simplifying their TV viewing to putting labels on keys and answering simple computer queries. These jobs took me minutes to execute but were invaluable to them. I love living in the Beaches (or Beach– I don’t want to alienate anyone) and the community that surrounds us. On my road alone, I have seen lots of elderly people that could just need a bit of help. Their loved ones and amazing family sometimes live a long distance away and just can’t pop in to perform the simplest of tasks. I can’t tell you how many times I have spent an hour on talking to my mum about how to fix the volume on her Alexa from thousands of miles away, when I knew that in 5 minutes if I had popped over it would have been solved. And that is where the idea of ourhelpinghand.ca come from – a portal for us to give back to those people who have made our community so great over the years. I feel that we can be there to help those who aren’t asking for it but may need it. I want to give up some of my free time to be there to support the people where their family can’t just pop in, and in the community that I love the most.