It is always inspiring to the human spirit when one sees or hears about good deeds by people who endeavour to lift others.

That was my feeling after a walkabout among the most depressed sections of our metro, at the invitation of Siya Makwabe, a social activist operating in Walmer Township.

This revelation occurred when I entered the wooden structure in the rubbish-strewn, dusty and raw sewage-spilling streets of G-West in Mpukane Street.