MBTA driver buys special treat for 3 homeless children
When Samuel M. Gebru took an MBTA bus home from Kendall Square on Thursday, something caught his eye at the front of the bus.
Gebru noticed three colorful gift bags behind the driver’s seat. After striking up a friendly conversation with the driver, he asked if the gifts were for her. What he learned next prompted him to post the conversation on his Facebook page, calling it an “inspiring encounter.”
Debbie Crasco, the driver, told Gebru the gifts were for three young homeless children whose mother regularly rides her bus. The family lives in a hotel in Allston, she told him. She had gone out and purchased a bunch of treats and gifts for the kids and packaged them in the bags. The gift bags had been sitting behind her seat for a few days, she said, because she has not seen the mother.
“I am inspired by Debbie’s act of random kindness,” wrote Gebru on his Facebook page. “It’s the little things that can really brighten up someone’s life especially in hard moments.”
Her employer is impressed by her actions too. The MBTA tweeted out this photo of Crasco and linked to Gebru’s post.
https://twitter.com/MBTA/status/743597787896549376
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