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May 2006

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Children, by nature, are friendly. Unfriendly behaviour such as bullying and anti-social behaviour are due to children feeling isolated and not having a sense of belonging to those around them.

Through the Random Acts of Kindness Project children experience the value of being kind - kind in words, action and thoughts - to those around them at home, at school and in the global community.

Kids for Kids in Action:

From Antoine Tinawi
Youth Instructor for the Art of Living, Montreal

Pam and David, two Art of Living instructors in Montreal, met 350 students from L'École Val-des-Ormes to get them excited about the Kids for Kids project. Each student was invited to do random acts of kindness for one month and to collect pledges. So for each random act of kindness they did, children received pledges of 10 cents...All of the kids participated and after thirty days of kindness, the children had raised $1,000 in pledges!

Laurentienne Bank as well as V2V Technologies matched this amount as they were very inspired by the project. In total, in just 30 days, the kids created a wave of kindness that allowed them to raise $3,000 to put towards whatever humanitarian project of their choice!

What did they choose to do? They wanted to buy an adapted bicycle for a boy at the school whose legs had been amputated. Mario William, the President of a bicycle company, Adaptel, was so touched by the program and what the kids had accomplished that he was able to provide us with a $5,000 bike at cost, which was exactly what the kids had raised!

The day we had the big party in the school gymnasium, one month after the project was started, parents, the media, the President of the bicycle company, teachers from the Art o Living and prime time TV were all there to witness the boy who had received the bicycle take his first ride, his lifelong dream! It was so sweet.

Throughout the month the kids had kept a log and journal about their random acts of kidness. That day the whole gymnasium wall was covered with all of their journal entries - a wall of kidness!

Check out the website they created:
http://www.kid-4-kid.com

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