Testimonials
What Participants Are Saying about the Coin-spiracy continued...
"We'd like to thank the people of KindActs B.C. for their awesome support for our project. We encourage every school to get involved in the Kindness Coinspiracy."
- Cathy Anderson, Robertson Elementary, Chilliwack, UNI #029
This is an excellent project, hope it continues in the years to come. Thank you Jackie for getting this going in our area.
- Merritt Bench Elementary, Merritt, B.C., UNI #057
(As a kind act to another) "We visited the extended care unit. The patients really enjoyed the special attention from the children and the children enjoyed giving of themselves to people who are not able to live on their own. Many expressed the fact that they were afraid when they first arrived but were soon enjoying themselves and felt good about giving to others...
What a wonderful program! The children became aware of kind acts and the positive way they impact others."
- Grief Point Elementary, Powell River, UNI # 056
"Thank you so much for such a wonderful program. My classroom really enjoyed the activity and learned a great deal about the pleasure of acting kindly towards others. As a teacher I found it very interesting to see all the great ideas generated by the students. I was pleasantly surprised to see all the initiative the students took. I also enjoyed seeing the students realize that being kind is a choice and that the more they gave, the more they received from others."
- Sonia Morin, Mission Central Elementary, Mission, UNI #054
"The students and staff at Charles Dickens Elementary have chosen to adopt the KindActs endeavour as our over-arching theme throughout the school year. We are proud of our children who exemplify leadership, cooperation, social responsibility, awareness and kindness each and every day..."
- Charles Dickens Elementary, Vancouver, UNI# 014
"This programme has inspired us to spread the act of kindness further than just one recipient. Our Student Council has decided to buddy up with Florence Nightingale School in Vancouver. We are supporting their school library with a donation of $300 to buy books."
- Irwin Park Elementary, Vancouver, UNI #046
"Students from the Yale Key Club filled shoe boxes for the project "Operation Christmas Child". I was very touched by the effort put into the projects by the students. They spent their own money to buy gifts for needy kids around the world."
- Yale Secondary School, UNI # 027
"As we have worked together to share our dream for a kinder world we have reaffirmed and deepened our understanding of one simple, yet beautiful and compelling truth - kindness to others is simultaneously kindness to oneself. Kindness makes the giver's heart happy too! Our coin-spiracy wish is that one day a kind act inspired by a "coin of caring" will touch us all."
- Harry Sayers Elementary, Abbotsford, UNI #001
"Our kind act to another was to donate "Shoebox Christmas Gifts" to needy students at Hastings Community School in Vancouver's inner city. Our students felt wonderful inside to be able to help less fortunate students at Christmas time. The project was a tremendously positive experience for the entire Bayview school community and fit in extremely well with our school focus on Social Responsibility and our code of conduct of "Being Safe, Fair and Kind". We would also like to let everyone know that we performed many other acts of kindness at our school and we saw that once you start being kind to others it creates more kindness where ever you go..."
- Bayview Community School, Vancouver, UNI # 013
We felt in awe as we examined the coin and decided upon our acts of kindness... Our divisions made posters for the Humane Society of Canada and raised enough money to adopt two acres in the Columbia rainforest. We felt so good to be able to work together to make our world a better place...
- Champlain Heights Community School, Vancouver, UNI# 025
We enjoyed joining the project. Our Kindness Day Assembly was really heartwarming. Students and staff are practicing random Acts of kindness...Every student in the school planted a tulip bulb in the gardens surrounding the school, to improve the beauty of the school. We are completing a log book of environmental projects; our aim is 100...
- Uplands Elementary School, Victoria, UNI # 019
On being a recipient: Two students visited and presented us with a gift of a Gameboy Advance. It was wonderful to see how genuinely excited the students were to be doing their kind act on behalf of the school...We are excited to now have the opportunity to pass on our kind act to another!
On being a giver: Staff, children and families at Sunny Hill collected various educational items for an inner city school nearby called Florence Nightingale School. Sunny Hill tends to be on the receiving end of acts of kindness fairly frequently and it was wonderful to have the opportunity to share with others and get a chance to do a kind act for another, especially during the Christmas season. There was a very good response and many were very enthusiastic about the experience. Such a wonderful idea!
- Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, West Vancouver, UNI #046
What a tremendously creative engaging way to help people, animals and the environment.
- Michael O'Sullivan, Executive Director, Humane Society of Canada
"The entire Acts of Kindness experience has been rewarding for everyone involved. It has lifted spirits in what can seem like a grey world and offers hope and belongingness to all. Being a giver cannot be undertaken without being a recipient of kindness. One kind act begets another! It is contagious! None of us will ever forget the warmth of this experience."
- Nicola-Canford Elementary, Lower Nicola, UNI # 057
"Change occurs with persistent, brave people at the grassroots level one person at a time. It's through educating ourselves and others and taking action, even just small positive actions that we can change the world. If each person did just one thing that helped the environment, it would make a huge difference. By helping clean up the environment, we are actually helping ourselves because our health depends on a clean environment.
I feel the Invest in a Kinder World Coin-spiracy is going to affect great positive change because it will educate, inspire and motivate, one person at a time, but will not stop at the individual - they will pass it along to the next. Before we know it, we will have a better world!
- Patricia Ross, Abbotsford Councilor
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