Baking cakes to counter terror. Responding to the terror attack in Manchester, Dubai-based Nicola Dolan bakes cakes to give to people.
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00:00It is the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, and a week after the horrific Manchester bombing
00:09that killed 22, mostly children. Even as the hate crimes go up against a certain section
00:14of the society, right here in our backyard, a British expat is doing her bit to avoid
00:20any backlash to the community. Nicola Dolan, through her random act of kindness, is baking
00:26cakes for Muslim families, just to show them love and kindness. I did this post on British
00:35Mums Dubai and the Real Mums of Dubai, and so I just put this post up, which was a genuine
00:41offer of a random act of kindness. And I just headlined it, Bakedown Barriers, which had
00:50just come to me, because I just like food, I like cooking, and food for me is love,
00:56so Bakedown Barriers, it wasn't an initiative, it was just a reaction, a positive reaction.
01:02So I offered a box of six freshly baked cupcakes to a Muslim family that was prepared to take
01:09me up on the offer, because I basically said the actions in Manchester were nothing to
01:14do with Islam, and we were all just identifying on a human basis. And then the posts went
01:20wild. There was two different posts, and they were bing, bing, bing, and to be fair, I just
01:26genuinely thought I would just be given some cupcakes, and it was a nice thing to do. I
01:30was actually trying to distract myself from what had happened, because I could just see
01:33that it was all over the news, and just trying to see if there was any more information about
01:37what had happened, and just trying to sort of see what was happening in my hometown,
01:42and then I saw that Nicola had posted saying that she felt helpless. She knew that the
01:46attacker, whoever it may be, that whatever community that he or she is from, you know,
01:50could face some backlash, because as we know, there's small-minded people everywhere, and
01:54she was just worried about them. To show solidarity, and to show that she does not believe that
01:58one community is responsible for this, she wanted to sort of give cupcakes.
02:03Like everybody else, you talk about it, everyone gets upset, it's very emotional, but it's
02:08very difficult to know what you can do. So, as I was travelling last week, I was getting
02:13the messages of what Nicola was doing, which actually helped me, inspired me a bit, in
02:19terms of, you know, something that you can do to inspire people and bring people together.
02:23It's nice to know that, you know, that she doesn't blame anybody, and that, you know,
02:29she understands that some people might, but she doesn't, and that makes me feel stronger,
02:34and, you know, yeah, it's very touching.
02:38Just a simple act to bring people together from different communities was really, really
02:42nice to see, and I've seen all the sort of posts coming through, and the people coming
02:46to collect the cakes, and it makes you realise there's so many nice people that care, that
02:51want to do something, that also feel helpless.
02:53Basically, I think kindness is the answer to what's happening in the world now.
02:58What was a genuine offer to bake cakes has turned into some serious good friendships
03:02for Nicola. She shows us how it's important to stand up for a cause, and let people know
03:08you care. Do you have something that you want to share? Then do it now, because tomorrow
03:13is another day. This is Anjana Kumar with Express.