A Wagga teenager has turned a day off into a day of paying it forward, putting the call out on social media to provide free garden work for elderly people and frontline workers.
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Nineteen-year-old Isaac Erbacher has been doing landscaping work with his friends after social distancing restrictions saw shifts dry up at the pub where he works.
This week, Mr Erbacher forgot he had a day off and found himself ready for work early on Wednesday morning with nothing to do, so he decided to volunteer free garden work for anyone who needed it.
"I went ... 'I'm already ready and I don't want to just go back inside and do nothing all day', so I just put up the post on Facebook," he said.
"Elderly people don't get as many visitors as they would like and it can actually become really lonely, and it's just nice to go out and meet people and just do something good."
Mr Erbacher travelled to Junee and spent hours with a local aged care worker and single mother - mowing, weeding and whipper-snipping a garden.
He then headed back to Wagga to do some weeding for an elderly woman in Kooringal.
"We had a good chat, she was really appreciative and it was just a really good way to end off the day," he said.
Mr Erbacher said he had been raised to value acts of kindness. He encouraged anyone with some free time to reach out, on social media or around their neighbourhood, to find ways to help both the elderly and frontline emergency and healthcare workers in their community.
"I think they're going to need all the positivity they can get," he said.