Kindness Starts With One®

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Do you have someone in your life who inspired you to be a better person? Did you witness an act of kindness that left an impression? Share your kindness story with the world.

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When i was in school

I moved school ro school till i could settle down. So, after a week of my new school, I saw a girl getting bullied by three boys. They were pulling hwr hair, throwing her bags etc... . Then i said 'stop' because it felt wrong if i just stood there and watched. Then they said 'what are you gonna do?...

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Chalk-Your-Walk

My daughter (5) and I went around our community lake and participated in a chalk-your-walk challenge. I wrote messages of hope, encouragement, and love while she drew pictures of flowers, hearts, and cat/unicorn-cat heads. We chalked up random spots around the lake path, which is a .8-mile loop. We worked all day with our art and was pleasantly surprised...

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my sister

so my sister go to a school or we went to there was this group Aryanna Poole as the leader there were 5 people in every grade she was the leader

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NEW KINDNESS YOUTUBE CHANNEL :)

Hello from Australia, my fellow RAKtivists! If this world needs anything, it is kindness. To spread the message and inspire people, I started a new YouTube channel called "Kindness Revolutionary" just yesterday. The goal is to make kindness the new normal by setting the example. I've been a YouTuber for a few years, but none of my channels have been...

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school

i met someone that was new and they didn't seem very happy so i asked them if they wanted to be friends and they said sure we played and talked for a while and now we are really good friends and we both are very kind against each other and others!!!!

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The kindness

One day a man was walking on the road his name was John he was angry on his friend raju because Raju will always tease John so he was angry on Raju. After couple of days Johns another friend Ram .thought let me go to John's house. Ramwas a kind man and intelligent man. Ram Went to his friend johns...

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Getting Egged

At Easter time this year we had all been stuck inside for about a month because of Covid and it was getting a little tough for my daughter. She couldn’t see her friends , go to school or all the other things 9 year olds love. She decided to get busy with crafts. The next thing I knew she had...

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My parents told me to be kind

When I was little my parents told me to be kind no matter what mood I was in. I do small but kind things for them like refilling their water bottle and turning off the light when they are going to bed.

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The power of kindess

The following was written by a student of mine in our Acts of Kindness Blog. When I was young I came to a kid who wanted to make friends with me for some reason I said ok. We played around the whole lunch and I felt warm. At that time I didn’t know that kindness makes people happy and live...

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Great things come in threes.

The following was written by a middle school student in my class as part of a Acts of Kindness Blog task: "The act of kindness I did might not have been much, but I created happiness in three different people. Three weeks ago, we had nearly run out of supplies at home, and we needed to go shopping. As we...

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Tony - A Recipient of Random Acts of Kindness

I have been the recipient of 4 random acts of kindness. Here is each story 1) I had had lunch in Burger King and after I had eaten, I went to my car in the parking lot and discovered I had a flat tire. A guy who was in his car saw that I had a flat tire and he...

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The lady and the cat

A older woman was walking the cobble streets in Italy one morning, when she stumbled across a hairless cat in a box down a ally. The woman had something in common with the cat because she was hairless from an old sickness. The day was cold, and grey the little cat was shivering in his loose skin. the old woman...

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A journey of kindness

This happened when my uncle was working at a remote location away from home. One fine day when he was at his academy, he encountered a student who was lying cooped up in one of the rooms around mid-noon. Now, this student lived quite far from the academy(enough to account for multiple hours of train journey). My uncle did not...

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Spreading virtual smiles

Prepared virtual Thank you cards to cheer up the soldiers protecting our borders last weekend. It was a great experience writing these notes to complete strangers who we as a nation are indebted to and admiring them for all that they do. Just added a few tidbits like "You are amazing!" or "We are proud of you!" at the end...

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Kindness is healing

The best act of kindness I personally experienced, was when I was inspired by one small boy. I am an artist by trade, and life... Inspired by a young boy, in remission from a rare brain tumor who's home I worked in for a few weeks painting murals for the family. Upon leaving that job, I wanted to do something...

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My friend can't do his alphabet

My friend can't write out the alphabet properly and while everyone else is laughing at him I helped him learn. (everyone was laughing because he is a stable 14 year old male in year 8)

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Tea at 11pm

It was raining for the last two three days and winds were blowing heavily. light shudders too. the security staff who are guarding the housing complex were on their duty as usual without any hesitation. it was really pity to watch them when they were doing their rounds in the huge housing complex inspire of heavy rain and wind. They...

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Helping Our Community One Book At A Time

For a summer project, we wanted to help others in our community and created a contact-free book drive. A door to door service collection for the PBC Homeless Coalition and Florida’s Literacy Coalition. After our first collection, we received 200 donations! We want to spread positivity and inspiration to other high school students to make a difference in their community!

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Being vegetarian

Being vegetarian is being kindness with animals and with the Mother nature ho made all the animals on this world.

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Chocolate

One day I was on a bus with my friend, halfway through the bus trip we saw a girl around 17 crying I went and sat next to her and asked her if she was ok, and she said she was just having a rough week. I reached into my bag and found some chocolate which I gave to her....

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Helping the guy next door set up for a fancy party.

I was riding down the driveway towards the hall when I saw this guy come out of a huge Christmas tree swearing at the mother that powers the lights and it was lucky that I had some oil with me because If I didn't give him the oil we would have never seen santa.

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I upvoted a reddit post and said it was amazing

So I was browsing Reddit and a post came up of a cute dog I liked the image so I gave it an upvote and said that I hoped he had a good day.

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Joy for Mom

My daughter is a disabled Veteran and is on a fixed income. She rarely has money to provide for she and her daughter who is psychologically disabled. When Mother's Day rolled around this year she did not have money to even send me a card, but she called and sent her love. A week later my sister died of COVID-19....

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Sacrificing for my sister.

I grew up in a very abusive home. My father was a monster and my mother was an enabler. I stupidly prayed for a baby sister; eleven years later I was given Apryl. I only say stupidly as it was rather selfish of me to ask for another person to suffer through an environment so completely toxic. I was eleven...

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Grocery Store Giver

I was young, had several small children at home, and we were living on a pastor's salary. At the grocery store one day, when we got to the check out and my groceries were rung up, I had put more on the check-out belt than I had the money for. As I started to select items to remove from my...

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Wal-Mart Parking Lot

I am a 30-something woman who knows very little about cars. My car battery died in the wal-mart parking lot, which is a pretty convenient place for it to die if you think about it. So I went back into the store and purchased a new battery. I rolled it out to my car in a shopping cart and popped...

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Candy boy

When I was 18, I worked in a copy center. A lot of school teachers left notes there, so their students had to copy them. We had a lot of work in school season, and machines tend to breakdown due to excessive use, therefore we often had to deal with broken machines and angry costumers, so our mood wasn't always...

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The Gift of a Litograph Scarf

Recently I received one of the most thoughtful gifts. My colleague and friend retired on June 30th. We started working together at the same school four years ago, and have developed a great friendship. Last week she contacted me to let me know she had a gift she wanted to give to me. We made plans to get together for...

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I Was Teacher Ninja'd!

The months of April, May and June 2020 were a tough as an educator. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we went through multiple start-ups, and changing health and safety guidelines daily. One Sunday in June, I was folding laundry and heard a knock at the door. As I opened the door I found a basket with my name on it...

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Austin Couple Creates Errand Service & Resource Group to Help Those Most Impacted by COVID

Hello, my name is Jason Rubio and I am writing to inform you about a new service created to reduce the impact of COVID in the Latinx community! COVID 19 has had a major impact on the Latino population in the US. In Austin, Texas, Latinos make up 30% of the population, but 60% of the hospitalizations. This is similar...

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