In the run up to UJS does Mitzvah Day 2009, we hope that all students across the UK are coming up with amazing things to help the greater community around the country, from volunteering at old ages homes, collecting clothing and food for those less fortunate to helping out the homeless. We have also put together a small list of Random Acts of Kindness to get you going.
Together, we can change the world.
Below is the initial list that we have created. If you can think of anything else, please get in touch and we'll add it so that we can make small steps towards helping others.
•Leaving a bar of chocolate or some money in a vending machine.
•Since you're not allowed to pay for people's parking, why not sellotape money to a meter for the next person that comes along.
•Tuck a £1 book token into a book in a bookshop (my favourites are self-help titles)
•Leave 50p in a phone box for someone in an emergency.
•Carry an elderly person's shopping home for them.
•Buy a £2.99 bunch of flowers and give it to an old lady.
•Buying 10p sweets and giving them to bank tellers.
•How about leave a book you've already finished reading on a train or in another public place? You could write a nice little note inside the cover too.
•Make or pay for cups of tea for everyone you are with for the day.
•Do all the dishes for a week.
•Clean the house.
•What about getting some soup - tinned or home made - and going to a city centre, or campus on a very cold/nasty day and giving out free cups of soup.
•Buy lottery tickets and leave them on car windscreens.
•Type out, print off and cut up some random nice things to say about people, such as; "You Look Lovely Today!", "Nice Shoes!", "Your Hair Looks Great!" etc and slip these little bits of paper all over the place, e.g. on seats on the bus or train, in newspapers, in amongst chocolate bars in shops, in people's bags of shopping when they are looking the other way...