Join in and be part of raising the kindness temperature today.
September 1st is New Zealand’s Random Acts of Kindness Day – and is especially welcome in these Covid times.
We are the only country in the world with a national Random Acts of Kindness Day. The first national RAK Day was started by Kiwis in 2005 and over the last 16 years been embraced it in every corner of the country.
There’s loads of stuff happening all over the country – check it out on Facebook or Twitter and add your own post.
Be a RAKtivist today!
Here are 19 things you can do for others during lockdown:
- Chalk positive, happy messages around your neighbourhood
- Organise FaceTime or Zoom happy hour drinks with friends or your work colleagues to check in on each other
- Play online Scrabble with friends also stuck at home
- Offer to shop for neighbours who are finding it hard to get out
- Hey kids, cook dinner tonight for the family
- Send pizzas or a lunch delivery to your friends who are essential workers
- Order groceries online and have them delivered to a friend/neighbour/your mum
- Phone your mum!
- Make a donation to a registered charity
- Phone or FaceTime a friend or relative who lives alone and brighten their day
- Make little gifts like jams, fudge, pot up some plant cuttings – to give away as soon as protocols allow
- Pick up rubbish on your neighbourhood walks (using gloves and washing your hands thoroughly afterwards)
- Mow the neighbour’s berm
- Write an actual letter, on lovely paper, for posting
- Make a video of yourself reading a story and send it to the grandkids or the grandparents
- Adopt an SPCA pet – enquire now, then pick up when Alert levels allow
- Depending on your level of lockdown, if your neighbours are essential workers, offer to walk their dog
- Sort out clothes and household items for donating (and you get to declutter at the same time!)
See the RAK website for more fun ideas to get you started and free downloadable resources to print out, such as little ‘You’ve been RAK’d’ cards to hand out.