Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:22 pm
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Posted on Oct 29, 2014
Lavana Kindle, professor of the Transitional Reading Paired with Psychology class, has assigned to her students a project that everyone can enjoy. Kindle’s class is taking it upon themselves to bring the nationwide movement Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) to our campus, or “home,” as her students call it.
The Random Act of Kindness Foundation is an internationally recognized non-profit organization which was founded in 1999 and focuses on kindness and dedication to providing resources and tools that encourage acts of kindness.
Kindle’s class, being linked with psychology, has an interest in RAK and its positive influences on society. The class has also been watching the movie Pay it Forward during their class sessions in attempt to learn more about self-help and helping humanity.
The class will be doing an act of kindness as a whole, and there will also be several individual acts of kindness. The class will be putting on their working gloves and spending class time cleaning up around campus. This idea came from student Brittney Nicole Mitchell, who states that our campus is our home away from home, and we will be more comfortable in a clean house. She says, “A clean house is a happy house.” Mitchell also jokingly said that although our country campus might “smell like a farm,” it doesn’t have to look like one.
Various individual acts of kindness will take place during the Thanksgiving break. Students will be donating food and children’s clothes to the Women’s Shelter; helping with Casey Charities by supplying toys, clothes, and food during Thanksgiving; donating clothes to CCAPS in hopes that they will be sold in the CCAPS thrift store to profit the animals; and making nursing home visits.
Kindle says that her dream act of kindness would be to fly her family up to Denver, Colorado, do a little skiing, and then take her whole family down to the city to participate in charity work and supply food to the homeless during the Thanksgiving holiday.
I will be following up with the class after Thanksgiving Break to see what all acts of kindness occurred, and the students performing these acts have promised to take plenty of pictures.
November 13th is World Kindness Day, and national RAK Week is scheduled for February 9th-15th of 2015. If you’re interested in RAK, their website provides more information on ways to spread acts of kindness.
http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/.
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