CHILDREN from the Kindness Club have been on a mission to bring a little happiness to the streets of Cooroy, performing random acts of kindness.
The Kindness Club was formed by children of the Cooroy Outside School Hours Care (COSHC) and their educators Wendy Scott and Lisa Hill, earlier this year.
The club meets every two weeks to discuss new ideas and talk about acts of kindness the children have either experienced themselves or witnessed others carry out.
Ms Hill said the children had many wonderful and original ideas on how to show kindness to others.
The children’s most recent excursion was into the Cooroy community, where they spent an hour and a half wishing local businesspeople and shoppers a lovely afternoon with a gift of a handmade crepe flower.
Ms Scott said the children loved the reactions from the people, with many saying “You have made my day”.
“The children in turn were treated with an act of kindness when a lovely gentleman working at Jamaica Blue gave each and every child a marshmallow in return,” she said.
“The children were very pleased and grateful. The children’s enjoyment and wonder at bringing a smile and a little happiness to someone’s day was heart-warming.”
The Kindness Club handed out 85 flowers in total.
Ms Scott said the club wished they could have touched more lives that day and visited more businesses, but they also hope people will pay the kindness forward.
“Maybe the people the Kindness Club members spoke to will also show someone else a kindness for no reason at all and make someone else’s day?” she said.
So far the Kindness Club has handed out Easter eggs to mums and dads at a local play centre, shared books from the COSHC library with young local children, given roses to cleaning and office staff of Cooroy State School, and presented their Chappy with a photograph collage of the children’s drawings thanking her for all that she does.
For more information about the COSHC Kindness Club, to share ideas, or suggest future acts of kindness, please email cooroy_oshc@bigpond.com.
