Alisa puts service above self

REACHING OUT: Junior Citizen of the Year finalist Alisa Louw feeds resident Carl Fitchett at the Summerstrand Cheshire Home. Picture: BRIAN WITBOOI

Childhood visit to Cheshire Home put her on a path leading toward medical studies

ALISA Louw was in primary school when her father took her to a Cheshire Home, for people with disabilities, one Sunday morning.

For some time he had been fetching a group of wheelchairbound people who belonged to their church so they could attend Sunday morning services.

It was a small act of kindness, but it made a huge difference in the lives of the Cheshire residents . . . and in his young daughter’s life.

Now a matric pupil at Pearson High, Alisa, 18, has been involved in numerous charity projects as part of her school’s Interact community outreach club, and lives by the club’s motto: Service Above Self.

This has landed her a spot among the finalists in the youth category of the 2015 Herald GM Citizen of the Year awards.

-Riaan Marais

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