After witnessing an elderly man sitting alone and ignored on a park bench for 40 long minutes, an onlooker was motivated to start an anti-isolation movement in her local community. The movement caught on.
“There was some of that British reserve that made me think he may think me weird if I sat next to him,” 53-year-old Allison Owen-Jones, from Cardiff in Wales, told the BBC. But Allison was touched by the elderly man’s apparent loneliness, and her imagination was sparked.
