Kind-hearted schoolboy donates pocket money to buy meals for the elderly

Manav Chera, eight, from Roker, has been saving the pounds he makes helping pack foods for his mum and dad’s Funky Indianwali home catering business.

Sensitive to the fact that many older people in the city will be lonely this Christmas, he asked his dad Kam if he could use the money to pay for meals.

Kam teamed up with Linda Procopis from Sunderland Family Zone to deliver the 40 meals, with the help of Whitburn School pupil Manav, to Gildacre Fields assisted living in Southwick and Haddington Vale assisted living in Doxford Park.

Residents were treated to deliveries of lentil curries and rice, which were given to staff to pass on to the people who live in the assisted living homes.

Kam said: “Manav has been helping us in gift wrapping our spice kits and hampers for a bit of pocket money. Every year we do something for charity and this year he said he’d like to do something for the elderly with the money he’d saved as he said they would be lonely because of the pandemic.

"It was very much an idea he came up with himself and we as parents wanted to help facilitate his idea. We delivered a lentil curry as it’s milder on the palate for the elderly.

"It’s great that Manav came along with us so could so the impact of his act of kindness on the community.”

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