In the spirit of the season, Discovery Co-op is in random act of kindness mode.
This week and last, volunteers from the Co-op have been hosting turkey lunches at 11 schools in the community, hoping their act of kindness will encourage students to pay it forward.
Leanne Ducommun, marketing and communications manager, says this is the Co-op’s first year of pay it forward lunches, inspired by taking part in a similar event at Lawrence School last year. The hope is to empower children to pass a random act of kindness on to others.
The lunches will be served to approximately 3,300 children. At the lunches, each student is given a pay it forward card, stating, “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” The card lists examples of how they can make a difference, even as children:
• hold the door open for someone;
• sharpen someone’s pencil;
• play with someone new;
• give a nice compliment;
• clean up after someone.
Ducommun say the lunches are being delivered and served to the students by a rotation of Co-op employees and school division representatives from Living Sky School Division and from Light of Christ Catholic Schools as well as student volunteers. Each lunch requires about 10 volunteers.
