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Acts of Random KINDNESS
f you would like to bless someone with an act of random kindness but don't quite know what to do or would like some suggestions we have come up with a broad list that should help you get started.
- Ask your mayor or a city official about your community’s greatest needs and what you could do to address them
- Cook a meal for an individual or family who is sick, recovering from surgery, recently had a baby, etc.
- Contact your local Veterans association to ask how you can serve veterans in your community.
- Make cards or gifts for seniors in a nursing home or convalescent facility.
- Mow the grass or clean up the yard for your neighbour.
- Give blood
- Offer to babysit for a neighbour so that they can have a date night.
- Assemble a new parent’s kit for the arrival of a newborn.
- Bring comfort and relief to patients and caregivers by volunteering through a local hospice agency.
- Teach classes or tutor those who are learning English as a second language.
- Work with local officials to paint over graffiti in your city
- Contact the local fire and police department to find out how you can bless the servicemen and women in your community.
- Collect backpacks and school supplies to give to children of families who can’t afford them.
- Sports clubs are often responsible for upkeep on their fields. Offer to help clean up their sports/recreation areas.
- Bake some cookies for a neighbour that you haven’t met as a means to introduce yourself.
- Create hygiene kits (toothbrush & toothpaste, shampoo, etc.) and give them to homeless individuals or families in your community.
- Volunteer at a local agency that works with children with disabilities.
- Help a neighbour make repairs to their property or home that they are unable to do themselves.
- Clean up trash at a park, beach, or river.
- Contact a local school principal to find out how you can best serve their school.
- Look at your city’s community events calendar, pick an event, and find out how you can serve at it
- Offer to pick up groceries with/for a senior citizen.
- Make “Get Well” cards for kids in a local children’s hospital.
- Leave Change in a vending machine
- Give out free icypoles or drinks on a hot day.
- Shout someone a ticket to the movies
- Buy a coffee for the person waiting behind you at the coffee shop.
- Visit someone who is lonely
- Bring in your neighbours rubbish bins
- Write a letter of thanks to someone who has made a difference in your life.