We painted a zebra crossing outside our own school in Piassa with leftover paint, after reading about Soweto.
Ripple · Cape Town → Johannesburg → Addis Ababa
OverviewVolunteers in Muizenberg repainted the faded pedestrian crossing outside the primary school. Nobody asked them to.
For kids walking to school.
Cars stop now. The teachers noticed first.
An imagined example. Real deeds are told by the people who saw them or did them.
We taxi drivers in Soweto repainted the faded stop signs along our own route one Sunday morning, after reading about the crossing.
For everyone on the Dube to Bara route.
Two fewer near-misses a week, the rank marshal says.
An imagined example. Real deeds are told by the people who saw them or did them.
→ led to a deed in Addis Ababa
We painted a zebra crossing outside our own school in Piassa with leftover paint, after reading about Soweto.
For the younger kids.
Drivers stop. The headmaster pretends he did not see who did it.
An imagined example. Real deeds are told by the people who saw them or did them.
This is the latest deed on this line, for now.
This line is imagined. The first real one could be yours.
Examples show how a deed is told and how it travels. Nothing real grows from them. If you saw a stranger do something good, tell it, and a real ripple begins.
Told in your own language, with your English rendering.