Clear views on acts of kindness

ACTS of kindness are being recognised in Hobart with students from Princes Street Primary School sharing their heart-warming experiences on the windows of the Hobart Red Cross office for an art installation.

Red Cross developed the installation to focus on how easy it can be to bring more kindness into the world, and the Princes Street Primary students kicked it off by sharing their own acts of kindness on the windows of the Red Cross office in Elizabeth Street.

Red Cross mobilisation coordinator Lissa Villeneuve said that as a society we need to spread kindness beyond our inner circles and this installation looked at developing random acts of kindness.

“This idea of random acts of kindness really struck a chord with me. That idea that you see somebody in the need of assistance and you give it just randomly without any thought of reward or recognition,” Ms Villeneuve said.

As they wrote on the window, students shared their thoughts on kindness.

“If you help someone then you would make them happy and that would make you happy too,” said Grade 4 student Rose Wilkie-Burton.

Red Cross research this year showed 77 per cent of Australians believed we need to take action around kindness and not just talk about it.

Claire Dolliver, a Grade 3/4 teacher at Princes Street Primary, said a goal was to reinforce kindness as an everyday occurrence and it did not take much effort to make someone’s life a little happier.

Red Cross is inviting all members of the community to share their stories of kindness for the art installation on Friday from 8.30am-5.30pm.