Kindness Starts With One^®

It was a cold morning in December, it was almost christmas! I asked my amazing teacher if I could help out with the Christmas decorations during my PD day and she said she could use an extra pair of hands. I wanted to do this because she was leaving for a vacation and I would probably not see her until...

In winter on my way home for school I saw a dog. I took him with me and I went to my house. I went to the vet to see the electronic pulse in the dog. BUT the pulse was not there !!!!! So my mom went in the street to look for the owner. And she found the OWNER...

It was an ordinary Saturday morning when I met Harold. I was sitting in a quiet coffee shop on the Upper West Side, reading Wuthering Heights, a book I’ve read more times than I can count. It’s become something of a comfort for me, the kind of novel that always says something new each time I return to it.

Harold...

One time during finals, I forgot my charger and my laptop battery died while I was working on my exam project. I was really stressed and didn’t know what to do. There was a girl in the same class who noticed how stressed I was. She came over and asked me, “What’s wrong?” When I told her, she gave me...

It was a Tuesdayat at a very warm day in summer. I was going going to my soccer practice wirh 2 friends. We had an amazing idea. It was to do a RAK! Our idea was to say hi to random people that we saw on our way to practice. We did it to make people happy and to make...

It was just past midnight when Sara Yahia found herself in the emergency room, exhausted and anxious, waiting for a family member to be seen when she noticed a man with three small children who looked pale and visibly uncomfortable. The father, clearly distraught, was doing his best to get help, but his limited English stood in the way.

Then...

I recently helped a friend who was feeling down after a tough day. I listened to his problems, offered support, and we watched a funny movie together. I felt happy to be there for him and see his spirits improve. I also read the story of the person who bought a coffee for the person behind them in line. I...

I stood up for someone at school

It was a Thursday, one of those heavy ones where silence speaks louder than words in the office.

Sara Yahia noticed her colleague Maya, usually upbeat and quick with a smile, sitting a little too still at her desk. Her eyes, watery and red, didn’t lift from the screen, and her coffee sat untouched. No one else seemed to notice....