Congratulations to The Herald Society for bringing to public awareness the work of caring people endeavouring to demonstrate a different, more wholesome way of living to many who have it tough in youth - a difficult task after so many years of shocking neglect (Helping kids caught in gang culture, Herald Society, March 29).
In 1960 I taught in what was probably one of the first schools in Easterhouse and was immediately aware of what Jimmy Wilson reports - "no shops, churches, clubs or other facilities which nurture a social life or community spirit".
When I first viewed Easterhouse from the top deck of a bus all I could see were children and people emerging from houses. Nothing else.
Many of these occupants had been decanted from the Gorbals and similar areas into a different world. As teachers, we tried to help by staying on later to provide a film - with a break for ice-creams.
It was not much but the children enjoyed it, as did we.
Memories flooded back to me as I read about Easterhouse and the work being done to help. I just had to reply to your invitation to comment. I care too, you see.
Christina Brownlee, Stonehouse
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