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Showing posts with label philanthropy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Monday, January 21, 2019
The Kindness Challenge
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| verdant123.com
What if everyone chose to be kinder every day? While traveling in South America, I ran into a group of students in the photos above. In the center of Santiago, Chile, they spent an afternoon of their winter break giving away free hugs, or “abrazos gratis.” They could have been home watching TV or playing video games. Instead, they shared bits of happiness (even with a wayward gringo).
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| skateistan.org Skateistan is a nonprofit that began in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2007. The organization now reaches out to youth in Cambodia and South Africa as well. "Skateboarding is one of the best types of education you can get, as it is learning through play. Thanks to skateboarding youth are exposed to people of different ethnicities, gender and beliefs. It provides you with a community to inspire, guide and challenge the participator. It also teaches you how to be creative with your ideas and it provides the outlets for that creativity.
In Afghanistan, it is considered inappropriate for girls to ride bikes, but with skateboarding there is no stigma attached to it. In the skate park, youth from different backgrounds are able to form strong friendships and the novelty of skateboarding, compared to more mainstream sports, has been especially enticing for youth.
Gender-based inequality is an important social issue that Skateistan aims to address by including as many girls as possible in their programs. Over 40% of registered students are female, and Afghanistan has the highest percentage of female skateboarders in the world. Skateistan offers girls-only sessions at all of their Skate Schools!"
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| indykids.org
In Lexington, Kentucky, groups of kids sold over $40,000 worth of lemonade to support homeless families. Click here to read the whole story at Indykids.org.
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| madhousers.org
A kind group of volunteers in Atlanta build free shelters for homeless people. The Mad Housers make their building designs available online for anyone interested in helping the homeless with one of life's most basic needs.
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In 2008, I joined The Mad Housers for a build here in Athens at a homeless camp on Lexington Road called Tent City. We built a hut for Radar, a young war veteran. Click here to learn more.
Radical Joy for Hard Times
Radical Joy for Hard Times is a community of kind and compassionate folks around the world who identify places that have been injured by natural or man-made acts. According to their website, "Creating a sustainable, thriving future on Earth depends upon opening our hearts to the natural world in its brokenness as well as its splendor. Just as we cannot heal our personal wounds until we face them honestly and compassionately, so we must face the broken, ugly, “wounded” places we live among in order that we can find beauty there, thank the places for all they have given, and so heal our relationship with them." Click here to read more, or right here for a slideshow.
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To celebrate the 100th day of school, I challenge the class to 100 acts of kindness. Do something kind, compose a short personal narrative then place it in the Box of Kindness. We will track our acts on a graph and reflect upon the effects on friends, family, community, animals and the environment. Let's take Amelia Earheart's advice and throw out our kindness roots!
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Joy
During the last library lesson of 2015, Mrs. Hudson reads Kate DiCamillo's Great Joy, a moving story of one child's incredible compassion. Next, she guides the class through an introspective and collaborative exploration of the many ways we can all spread joy. The word cloud above illustrates the variety of thoughtful contributions.
What is one of the best parts of the holidays that you can't touch, taste, see, smell or hear? This is the last T.A.G. question of the year. Enjoy the following (unedited) responses, and happy holidays!
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Kenya Bucket List
Ken Surritte is the founder of Water is Life. Here he describes an inspirational experience that illustrates how small acts of kindness can make a huge difference:
While helping the clean-up of Hurricane Katrina, I was reminded of the story of the little boy that was on the beach after a storm. There were thousands of starfish washed up on the beach. The little boy started picking starfish up one by one and throwing them back into the water. An old man watching this just shook his head thinking, "One little boy and so many starfish, he could never help them all." So the old man went down to the boy and told him, "Don't you know you will never make a difference? There are too many starfish washed up on the beach." The little boy looked at the old man and then reached down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the water and said, "It made a difference to that one."
During snack one day last year, we discussed bucket lists, and in an effort to activate prior knowledge of goal setting, I asked the class what they would put on theirs. Before viewing or even mentioning the short film above, Ally said she wants to help people around the world access water by drilling wells. Josie said she wants to help ensure that water sources are free from contamination. How lucky are we here at Chase Street to spend our days among such compassionate souls?
100 Days of School, 100 Acts of Kindness
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