31 Days to Warm the World: Kindness Challenge 2012
In a world increasingly divided, a group of Minnesotans is starting a worldwide movement: to warm the world through kindness in just 31 days. During January, 2012, the Kindness Challenge intends to inspire one million acts of kindness throughout the world.
People who want to make a difference in the world are needed to help spread the word and participate in the Kindness Challenge. It’s free, and it’s simple. Doing something nice for others feels great, and it makes others feel great too. Most importantly, it can start a domino effect, connecting people around the world through kindness and generosity.
Small acts of kindness can be as simple as a smile, sending a card, opening a door or helping someone in need. One million acts of kindness create momentum that will change people’s lives and positively shift the world. Starting January 1st, 2012 – log on to www. kindness-challenge.org and click “Log Your Acts” to make your acts of kindness count towards our goal of one million.
To participate in the Kindness Challenge, or learn more, follow us on Facebook, and check out our website at www.kindness-challenge.org
For holiday travelers, random acts of kindness
Sometimes when you travel, it’s the little gestures of compassion that make the biggest difference, especially during the holidays.
For Becky Brand, it was a Washington bus driver who went out of his way to help her during Thanksgiving week. “While I was struggling with a heavy suitcase in the rain, he made my day by stopping to let me on instead of having me run to the bus stop a block away,” says Brand, who works for a legal advocacy group in the capital. “Although a small and random act of kindness, it made my holiday week and definitely gave me something to be thankful for.”
Jenny Block remembers the nameless American Airlines employee who answered her plea on Twitter. Her cousin had been left in a coma after a traffic accident, and she needed the airline to bend a flight change rule. Block, a writer who lives in Dallas, received an immediate reply: Of course the airline would help her.
“You won’t believe this part,” she told me. “It happened on Thanksgiving morning.”
Read More : http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2017054765_trholidayhelp20.html
Random acts of Christmas kindness “overwhelming”
“For the first time ever, I’ve experienced the true meaning of Christmas.”
That’s the word from Fenton Kmart Manager Rick Faulk, who is overwhelmed by the generosity of “Secret Santas” this Christmas, who have anonymously come into the store and paid off peoples’ layaways. “In my 35-plus years in this business, I’ve never seen the generosity of people toward total strangers as I’ve seen this year,” said Faulk.
The Times ran a story on Wednesday about these anonymous benefactors, who stop in at stores and restaurants and pay off layaways and orders of food that are waiting for pick-up. At Kmart, they focus primarily on layaways that have toys and children’s’ clothing, like outerwear and boots.
Read More : http://www.tctimes.com/news/random-acts-of-christmas-kindness-overwhelming/article_5534558a-2da9-11e1-9e20-0019bb2963f4.html
Confectioner tries to spread a little kindness across the globe
Perfetti Van Melle wants to make the world a far better place
SHANGHAI - An Italian sweet maker has launched a series of activities to encourage Chinese people to practice random acts of kindness and undertake more personal social responsibility to make the world a better place.
Perfetti Van Melle Confectionery (China) Co Ltd (PVMCC) said the initiative was designed to promote charitable work from the heart to help those in need.
As part of the plan, PVMCC joined hands with nongovernmental organization 1KG.org to give books and candy to children in less developed areas of China such as Yunnan and Gansu provinces over the past few months. It also has open accounts at Chinese social networking sites and Sina Weibo to collect stories of kind acts.
“After several years of development we have seen a dramatic increase in productivity in our society. However, somehow people have become a little indifferent and apathetic toward strangers,” said Ma Limin, marketing director of PVMCC. “We must remember emotion and kindness are the most important elements that help us to maintain human relationships in society and support their growth.”
Read More : http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-12/12/content_14248342.htm
