November 2009
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Kindness Scotland's thoughts on kindness for World...
SKM: What is the significance of World Kindness Day for you and your organisation?
World Kindness Day is important to us because it reminds us of the importance of everyday acts of kindness and because it gives us the opportunity to share with the community the recognition and celebration of children in Scotland who have shown kindness to others and to the environment during the previous year.
SKM: How is your organisation celebrating WKD on 13 Nov?
Kindness Scotland is celebrating World Kindness Day 2009 with our annual Kind Kids Awards ceremony on Friday 13 November in Edinburgh City Chambers. This year we have more schools involved than ever before and we will be joined by, in addition to the students, their families and teachers, the Lady Provost of the City of Edinburgh and musical group Fischy Music.
SKM: What is your wish for kindness?
Our wish for kindness is that it will be practised by all people, always.
SKM: What can we improve on so we can be kinder?
To improve on the capacity for kindness, it would be helpful to be aware of the needs, big and small, of others, to be patient, and to take the initiative to carry out acts of kindness.
SKM: Can you share a saying or quote about kindness that you follow?
'Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.' - Seneca
SKM: What is one kind act that we can all do today?
There are countless acts of kindness that can be done in one day!
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Greetings from India
Greetings,
On Nov 13th, we will be celebrating World Kindness Day. We are a group of young, enthusiastic and society consicous transgender women’s organization working for transgender people’s rights in Tamilnadu, India. On this special day, we will gift slum children toys and teddys and make them happy and joy. The next day is Children’s day here in India. So they celebrate and...
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Interview with The Kindness Movement of the UAE
Interview with Mr Nawar F. Al Daas, Chief Executive Officer of The Kindness Movement of the UAE in conjunction with World Kindness Day
SKM: What is the significance of World Kindness Day for you and your organisation?
Mr Nawar: We have not been promoting the world kindness day here in the UAE, but we have plans for this year. We believe everyday should be a kind day and the kindness day should mark outstanding kind individuals, a practice which we are planning to start from 2010. (Kindness award)
SKM: How is your organisation celebrating WKD on 13 Nov?
Mr Nawar: As I mentioned in the previous question, this year and for the first time we will have 2 initiatives. The first one is Football for Life event, a community ad fund raising football evening to raise funds for the UAE Red Crescent and the second is distributing thousands of flyers to introduce the Kindness Day on Friday the 13th of November. (Please see attached artwork)
SKM: What is your wish for kindness?
Mr Nawar: Kindness for me and for all of us here in The Kindness Movement of the UAE is the essence of every virtue in our life, if we practice kindness we will assure a life which is rewarding and meaningful but I wish we all can add a bit of creativity to our work.
SKM: What can we improve on so we can be kinder?
Mr Nawar: Help each other improving our lives conditions and standards. It is very hard to be kind if I am hungry and cold, I believe if we as members of the WKM would adopt poverty as a cause and then come up with joint common initiatives globally to help the most poor then maybe that could help people to be kinder. I am not saying poverty will not allow people to be kind, but hunger, illness , stress …..etc… all are one way or another results of poverty so by eliminating the cause we create the cure. With that said, I would stress on the fact that kind acts just like all good things in life, are free, hence they are the most affordable :)
SKM: Can you share a saying or quote about kindness that you follow?
Mr Nawar: “Kindness is the essence of every virtue in life and the path to ultimate success” and off course, “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted”
SKM: What is one kind act that we can all do today?
Mr Nawar: Simply, brush our teeth. Be kind to ourselves. cherish our life and then we will be kind to others and cherish their lives.
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Interview on Kindness - Italy
Interview with Dr Giorgio Aiassa from the Italian Kindness Movement in conjunction with World Kindness Day.
SKM: What is the significance of World Kindness Day for you and your organisation?
Giorgio Aiassa: It is a means for reminding all people, one day out of 365, that kindness is the best of all virtues making human beings the noblest creatures on earth.
SKM: How is your organisation celebrating WKD on 13 Nov?
Giorgio Aiassa: We shall distribute a large amount of flyers to be further relayed onwards to any person thankfully reacting to an act of kindness, thus generating a sort of 'Kindness chain'.
SKM: What is your wish for kindness?
Giorgio Aiassa: We wish that Kindness becomes deeply and intimately part of all citizens spirit so that social rules and restrictions become redundant and meaningless.
SKM: What can we improve on so we can be kinder?
Giorgio Aiassa: The best way for being kind in a uniform and consistent way is to find a perfect, intimate balance between reason and feelings.
SKM: Can you share a saying or quote about kindness that you follow?
Giorgio Aiassa: Our motto is printed in our logo: 'Kindness is a flower which brings sunshine to our lives. Let us nurture it!'.
SKM: What is one kind act that we can all do today?
Giorgio Aiassa: The whole world would perform an act of kindness in favour of future generations by promoting serious birth-control programs encouraging lower or higher birth rate in accordance with the different local situations.
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Celebrate World Kindness Day! - Singapore
13 November is World Kindness Day, and you are invited to join in the celebrations!
Back in 1998, the World Kindness Movement conference decided to set aside one day in the year – 13 November – to reaffirm its commitment to kindness as citizens of the world. This year, Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) is spearheading a drive to get everyone to affirm and thank the kind people they know.
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Arigato Mr Tanaka
Japan has often been cited as the most gracious place on our planet. Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) try to uncover what makes the Japanese so friendly and kind by speaking to Mr Yoshimoto Tanaka, the current president of the Small Kindness Movement of Japan.
SKM: Japan is considered one of the most gracious place. What is your secret?
Mr Tanaka: Traditionally, the Japanese are a farming population. Such work requires that we all work as a group and keeping harmony within the group is of top priority. It is shameful to pursue one’s own desires and take individual action. Over time, it has become a shared habit for us to think and act by putting oneself in another’s shoes. This is why the Japanese behaviour is to always consider others first.
SKM: How can we be kinder?
Mr Tanaka: ‘Kind-mindedness’ is best learnt through the actual experiences of offering and receiving kindness in our daily lives. To help children develop kindness in their thoughts and actions, the adults must first set good examples by acting with thoughtfulness.
SKM: What is your wish for kindness?
Mr Tanaka: I wish that kindness based on all humanity, can spread across the world, erasing the borders of ethnicities, religions and nations.
SKM: What is one kind act we can all do today?
Mr Tanaka: Our slogan is ‘Let us all act kindly for whatever we can do, so that it becomes a social habit’. We can all behave kindly in our own actions. If 100 people can do it, there will be 100 different acts of kindness!