October is here, and that means it’s time for Socktober, a month-long celebration of kindness and community support. New socks are often one of the most requested items in shelters but one of the least donated items. Individuals, families, schools, workplaces, and community groups can all take part in helping provide this everyday essential to our unhoused community.
Join the RAKtivist community in spreading kindness by creating personalized kindness bookmarks and hiding them in public libraries and school libraries for random visitors to discover. Let's share the joy of random acts of kindness with our community!
What happens when one small act sparks a chain reaction of kindness? See Norm in our new video whose simple act of kindness transforms the lives of many others. Discover the science behind why kindness is contagious.
Change can start with the smallest thing. Just one person, just one small act of kindness...
For #RAKDay 2018 we collected hundreds of stories from all of you. You showed us that Kindness Starts with One and told us who your ‘one’ is. We were deeply touched by the story of the Murphy family who has been courageously living their lives after Chris came home from several deployments where he suffered multiple traumatic brain injuries. While he exemplified courage on the battlefield, the true test of courage came when he and his family received the diagnosis that he has early onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 39 years old.
Watch our new video inviting you to help kindness become the norm in your home, school or workplace. Pass it on!