KINGSTON, Jamaica — A resident of Cooreville Gardens took matters into her own hands to initiate work to fix potholes in her community with the support of other volunteers in the community.

“Actually, I came by the other night when the rain was falling, and I heard ‘blum’ when I was in my living room and when I realised that somebody fell in there and, you know, the tyre burst. So I looked at it the following day and said I’m going to help. That’s how I started out,” Maureen Gordon told Observer Online.

“I went to get those materials for my place to fix, and I’m utilising it before the man even turn up. We have to live for each other. We are all a chain link. Some people don’t understand that whatever I do, I do from my heart,” she continued.

Gordon said motorists and passersby have commended the initiative.

“It is beneficial because it not only ago affect me but residents who use the main road, and many times people a pass and nuh know say you have a pothole during the rain, and dem vehicle damage. To alleviate such things, we decide to do a thing and patch out what we can,” she said.

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