Last updated on August 2nd, 2023 at 03:37 pm
Have you heard of The Great Kindness Challenge? The Great Kindness Challenge is a week devoted to performing as many acts of kindness as possible that you choose from a checklist of 50 suggestions. The next Great Kindness Challenge takes place next week, January 25-29, 2016. The challenge is open to all students in grades, kindergarten through high school. The goal is to increase empathy, tolerance, and compassion.
According to their website, The Great Kindness Challenge was created by Kids For Peace, in 2011, when they were asked to help stop school bullying. In 2012, the Great Kindness Challenge was piloted with 1614 students in 3 schools in Carlsbad, CA. By 2013 they had grown the program to include 113,954 students in 263 schools. And last year, in 2015, they surpassed 2.1 million students who together achieved 109,344,450 acts of kindness. That is amazing!
Jill McManigal, Executive Director of Kids for Peace, stated, “When students perform kind act after kind act after kind act, kindness becomes a habit. When kindness becomes a habit, peace becomes possible.”
It is super easy to sign your school up on their website and download the list of 50 different ways to show kindness. It is all free for your school including a toolkit to help you get started. It’s not too late to get started! Whether it is picking up trash or penning an anti-bullying essay, there are many ways to participate!
Today, maybe more than ever, we should promote kindness, love, and tolerance. I can’t think of a better way to foster community and school spirit than The Great Kindness Challenge!
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