TORONTO – Ordinary people around the world are challenging others to random acts of kindness in an online movement created to honour those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting.
Thousands are joining the #26Acts or #26ActsofKindness campaign, both on Twitter and Facebook, to bring some happiness into their own communities.
The movement began after NBC’s Ann Curry sent a tweet asking followers to commit to 20 acts of kindness, each to honour a child killed in the horrific tragedy.
Many suggested the movement should include an additional six random acts of numbers in honour of the adults killed in the school shooting last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut.
In a YouTube video posted on Wednesday, Curry asks people to imagine the impact they can have on their communities if they performed an act of kindness, whether big or small, to the lives lost.
“Tens of thousands of people on Twitter and Facebook not only seized the idea, they increased it to #26Acts, to include the heroic teachers, and are launching acts of kindness big and small all over America,” Curry wrote in a post on Monday. “Some changed the hashtag to #26ActsOfKindness, some wanted to increase it to 27, and 28. All good. You are in charge of this wave now.”
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Canadians have also joined the movement. Below are some of their random acts of kindness stories:
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