Aberfan: the kindness of strangers

Stephen Feltham reflects on the anniversary of the Aberfan disaster

by Stephen Feltham 21st October 2016

Madge was not a Quaker, neither was she a healer, but she, nonetheless, brought about healing at a time of catastrophe and extreme sorrow. She was able to find a way, at a time when a whole nation experienced grief and unimaginable sorrow, to bring a little healing and compassion into an otherwise terrible time. This was fifty years ago, when others could only look on with feelings of impotence and immense sorrow.