World Kindness Day: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added
Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
m Reverting possible vandalism by Nirmala Mehendale to version by BalaM314. Report False Positive? Thanks, ClueBot NG. (4179058) (Bot)
Line 27:
 
== History ==
In 2010, at the request of Michael Lloyd-White, the [[New South Wales|NSW]] Federation Parents and Citizens Association wrote to the Minister of The NSW Department of Education to place World Kindness Day on the NSW School Calendar.
In 2010, at
 
In 2012, at the request of the Chairman of World Kindness Australia, World Kindness Day was placed on the Federal School Calendar and the then Minister of School Education, Early Childhood, and YourYouth. The Hon [[Peter Garrett]] provided a Declaration of Support for World Kindness Australia and placed World Kindness Day on the National School Calendar for over 9000 schools.
 
Schools across the globe are now celebrating World KindneGovernorKindness Day and work with local NGOs such as the Be Kind People Project and [[Life Vest Inside]] In the USA. In 2012 in Australia, [[Marie Bashir]], Governor of New South Wales, hosted an event for the first time at [[Government House, Sydney|GovernGovernment House]] to celebrate World Kindness Day and accepted a Cool To Be Kind Award from year 3 & 4 students. Australian Councils representing over 1.3 million residents have also signed Declarations of Support for World Kindness Australia placing World Kindness Day on the Council Calendar of Events.
 
Events include THE BIG HUG, handing out Kindness Cards, Global Flashmob, which was coordinated by [[Orly Wahba]] from the US and was held in 15 countries and 33 cities with its images of the event making the big screens in [[New York City]]. Canada celebrates with The Kindness Concert and in Singapore in 2009, 45,000 yellow flowers were given away. In 2017 World Kindness day was also celebrated in [[Slovenia]], organised by volunteering organisation [[Humanitarček]] as part of their project Randomised Kindness.
 
==Objective==