a minute of kindness
This country pub in the village of Davenham cooked hundreds of meals for the locals through lockdown. When flooding took place recently, they stepped up again to help the people who were displaced.
Matthew Pierce, a teacher in Pennsylvania, used his stimulus payments to buy UberEats gift cards for students and their families.
After the deadly insurrection of the US Capitol carried out by pro-Trump supporters, a group of veterans helped to clean the streets of Washington, D.C. and remove the marks left by the hatred and violence of January 6th. The effort was organised by the non-profit group Continue to Serve, a group of military veterans who support social justice causes including Black Lives Matter, voter safety and immigration.
Bernadette Russell decided to get beyond digital communication and go old school, by assembling creative cards with a written thank you message, poetry or even a joke, then sending them out to her friends and loved ones during lockdown.
This non-profit online archive of digitised film reels is a streaming service for elderly people and those with dementia. Helping to trigger memories and conversations between generations, with around 2000 archive programmes, clips and newsreels.
Melissa Gillen has been using her mind coaching skills to help support her community, getting people together to take walks and this Christmas has been delivering food hampers to members of the community who’ve been nominated by others.
As news channels showed freight drivers caught at the port of Dover following France’s decision to close its borders to try and contain a new mutant strain of coronavirus, Britain’s Khalsa Aid, a Sikh community group, swept into action to provide the drivers with food.
Robin and Emma-Jane Richards show their love for Bristol and colour by creating a street side gallery outside of their home. With the artworks on display the couple are hoping to brighten up the road for passers-by too.
In 2017 Mahinda Dasanayaka started ‘Book & Me’, a mobile library providing free books and documentary screenings for children in remote Kegalle, northeast Sri Lanka. Dasanayaka, who works as a child protection officer, volunteers his time delivering books in the mountainous region on his motorbike fitted with a red steel box filled with reading materials.
Mitch Couch’s children, like many, had to study at home when schools were closed. The kitchen table didn’t suffice after a short period of time, so he put his carpentry skills to great use, so his kids could study.