Photo: ODTA refugee mother was reduced to tears by a random act of kindness during her grocery shop. The Syrian woman was shopping at Pak'nSave in Dunedin with her three school-aged children when a stranger paid for her groceries. "They couldn't believe the level of kindness that someone would do something like that for a perfect stranger." Young said the mother's headscarf attracted plenty of attention in the supermarket - all from other customers saying things like "welcome to New Zealand" and "welcome to Dunedin". "We cannot all pay for the groceries of others at the checkout but we can all say 'hello' and 'welcome'.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 22, 2019 03:11 UTC