Kareema's taxi ride

One of our first Free Taxi passengers was a lady called Kareema. We picked her up on Orange, even though she was only going to the Mount Nelson, and because she was early that day, she let us drive her around for a while and listen to her story.

What struck us first was her energy. She comes from Delft. She is a single mother of two children. She works hard as a cleaner at a five star hotel, where she is instructed to be invisible. Yet she is vivacious, optimistic and happy. She loves her city. She told us that Delft (a fairly rough area) doesn’t sit on her clothes. It’s not the place that makes the people, she says, but the people who make the place. A while back her idol Lionel Richie was in town. She’s pretty much his biggest fan, yet she couldn’t go up to him and say hi, for fear of being fired. We know this is the way things are. Why?

A truly beautiful and gutsy individual – check out Kareema’s video below.