LOOK: TAFTA's pods make for safer care home visits
Two Durban sisters are closer again, after the months-long lockdown came between them.
"What are would normally do is drive up the road and because her bedroom window faces the road, I use to park in my car and chat to her and wave to her from there."
The Association for the Aged has unveiled its first-ever visitor's pod at the John Dunn House in Wentworth.
Allison Vezasie says she would usually see her sister, Terry Gabin every week and take her on outings.
But the lockdown had confined Gabin to her room in the last couple of months.
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The new pod allows elderly people to safely visit with family members without risk of COVID-19 infection to themselves and others. "
"With the pod being there it is much better because now she is in front of me, she is closer to me."
Even though the pod has a glass in between us but we can see each other and it feels a bit more connected being in the pod whereas from the window to the road," she said.
TAFTA is hoping to raise enough money to install more pods in other homes.
The Association will host a drive-in movie night on Saturday.
The fundraising event will be held at the Harlequins Sports Club on the Bluff, south of Durban.
For more information contact Kemmy Leigh 067 167 5189 or email [email protected].
