Liam’s snack packs delight neighbours

A NINE-year-old boy has delighted his neighbours by delivering snack bags to vulnerable people living in his street.

Liam Lafferty decided to buy some of his favourite treats and, alongside dad Craig, deliver them to elderly neighbours as a way of letting them know he was thinking of them during the coronavirus lockdown.

Liam, a pupil at Tayview Primary, had seen his grandparents receiving food packages throughout lockdown and asked his dad if he could make some of his own.

He then passed his boxes on to residents in Hindmarsh Avenue in the Coldside area of the city.

Craig said: “Liam usually stays over with his grandparents a lot but since lockdown he hasn’t been able to see them as much.

“One day he was playing his Xbox and came downstairs to ask if he could make his own food parcels to deliver to the neighbours he usually sees and also to the sheltered housing residents.

“I think the idea has come from him seeing his grandparents receiving the food supply boxes.

“I was so proud of him for wanting to do this so we made little bags up with things like Jaffa Cakes and Mini Cheddars, and he wrote a little letter to go inside saying he was thinking of everyone stuck indoors.

“I don’t know where he gets his kindness from, it was really amazing.”

Liam has already been out for a second time to gift even more treats wants to keep going for as long as he can.

“Everyone was absolutely delighted with the packs, the response has honestly been mental,” Craig said.

“It was amazing to see his face light up when everyone was thanking him for what he was doing.

“He is just so chuffed with himself for doing it and now he wants to keep going and deliver more packs around the area.

“We are all really proud of him.” Liam, who plays football for Dundee Sporting, said: “It makes me feel so happy that I was able to make people smile and I am already working on ideas for what I can do next.

“It’s been the best day of my life getting my pictures taken for the paper – I was so surprised and didn’t expect it at all.”

Liam in the kitchen preparing some of this snack bags.

Liam out with a basket of goods making his deliveries.