Kindness
Children learn that kindness is a choice they can make every day. Small, consistent actions show them that care does not need to be complicated to matter.
Kindness in action across Metro Vancouver
Helping ChildrenPractise Kindness
Through hands-on community service, children learn to care for others, shared spaces and the communities around them.
Children learn kindness by doing it.
What guides us
Values We
Put Into Practice
Children are not too young to make a difference. When they understand why kindness matters and are trusted with a meaningful role, empathy becomes something they can practise rather than simply discuss. These values shape how we teach, plan activities and work with families, volunteers and community partners.
Empathy
We help children notice what others may need, listen with care and consider perspectives beyond their own. That understanding guides a more thoughtful response.
Education
Every activity connects a clear lesson with an experience children can understand and remember. Learning continues through preparation, participation and reflection.
Community
Children, families and partners work side by side to meet local needs and strengthen belonging. Contributing together helps young people see how each person supports the whole.
Responsibility
Young people learn that caring for neighbours and shared spaces is something they can take part in now. They see how preparation, follow-through and respect make an act of service useful.
Ways to help
Choose how you would like to take part.
Everyone can contribute in a different way. Whether you can volunteer, provide resources, share expertise or connect us with a local need, we will help explore where your support can be useful and appropriate for children.
01
Volunteer
Lend your time, energy or skills to help children and families take part in hands-on acts of care. You may support an activity, prepare materials or help behind the scenes.
02Donate
Your support provides activity supplies, community-care packages and learning materials. Each contribution helps turn a caring idea into something children can learn from and take part in.
03Partner with us
Schools, businesses and community organizations can share expertise, space, supplies, sponsorship or knowledge of a local need. Together, we can explore an appropriate role for children.
What children do
Kindness they can
see and practise.
Each activity pairs clear learning with age-appropriate community service. Children understand who or what needs care, take on a useful role and reflect on how their choices affected people or place.
Community care
Helping neighbours, together.
Children and families prepare care hampers for neighbours, learning how thoughtful planning can meet a practical need. Sorting, packing and sharing useful items makes care visible and immediate.
Environmental stewardship
Caring for our shared home.
Cleanups, planting and outdoor care show children that looking after shared spaces is part of looking after one another. They can see how many small efforts combine into a healthier place for everyone.
Kindness education
Turning empathy into practice.
Guided activities help children name empathy, practise it and carry it into everyday choices. Conversation before and after an activity connects what they did with why it mattered.
Our community in action
Kindness, in numbers.
Every act of care grows through the people who make it possible.
- Hampers
- 500+
- Admins
- 5
- Student ambassadors
- 13
- Volunteers
- 50+
- Events
- 12
Figures as of September 2026.
Why we exist
Kindness is a skill children can practise.
Inspired by Frances (Cece), we connect children with real opportunities to care for people and place, building empathy through action.
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