A quiet gesture is where kindness lives in sport. For Jayden Braaf, football has never only been about goals or contracts. It has been about those moments.
Day 16 – How Some Men Cry
Men and toxic masculinity is a sad indictment on us all. This poem reflects a breakdown in relationship between Fathers and their sons.
Day 15 – Sleeping on a Stone Pillow
Sleeping on a Stone Pillow involved a social worker, befriends a homeless woman named Florabelle, played by Lucille Ball, to understand what it is like.
Day 14 – Just One Student’s Note
When Chris resigned from a very toxic workplace he was feeling hurt and broken. This note left one day on his noticeboard from a student lifted his spirits.
How Om Prakash Gurjar Used His Childhood Struggles To Protect Kids
For Om Prakash Gurjar, kindness became a form of justice. He grew up in fields, working long hours & denied the simplest right of all, the right to a childhood.
Day 13 – Marcel, Making the Invisible Visible
In 1944 when Marcel Mangel’s father was taken by the Nazis to Auschwitz, where he was killed, he changed his name to Marceau and joined the French Resistance.
Day 12 – The Face In The Mirror Kindness Starts Here
The mannequins in the shop window are dressed for tennis, or resplendent in evening dress for a dress-up evening, they all look full of life in a lifeless way.
Day 11 – A First Nations Child’s Failings: Australia Day When A Nation Truly Remembers
We celebrate Australia Day on the day the Australia was claimed for England. A sad history for those who inhabited the land for many thousands of years before.
Day 10 – Just a Cuppa & a Listening Ear Are Sometimes The Best Therapy
The best cultures in the world are those built on sharing community & a cuppa. Where no-one is truly alone. It’s something lost, but so important to regain.
How Gitanjali Rao Is Changing the World Through Empathy and Innovation
From the Flint Water Crisis to online kindness, Gitanjali Rao proves that innovation & empathy belong together. Her story shows how science can change the world
