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Photo of the Week #77: “Brother and Sister” “My kids love to cuddle.”-M. Denisova This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography Contest.

Photo of the Week #76: “Emancipation“ “This photo from the Philippines shows a child freeing his pet dove at the beach. Every creature deserves to have freedom and that’s why this boy is [...]

Photo of the Week #75: “A Lovingly Brother Gesture” “This gesture of two brothers lovingly caressing one another is a typical gesture when these lions that are part of the famous Marsh [...]

Photo of the Week #74: “My Pet” “The little girl of a tribal-village is interacting with her little-pet with compassion while sitting beside the outer wall of their dwelling-place, [...]

Photo of the Week #73: “Feeding the Youngest” “In a food nutritional camp for the local children in India, the senior is taking care to feed the younger with the unexpressed [...]

Photo of the Week #72: “Midday Meal” “Governments have the capacity for great kindness.’The “Midday Meal Scheme {plan}’ is a school meal program of the Government of [...]

By Zach Shively (posted by D. Fryburg). On a drive home over eight years ago, a teenager had a very specific thought: “Day 1: Happiness is.. those perfect car rides where the radio just plays all [...]

Photo of the Week #71: “All Things Grow with Love” “Each year, Buttonwood Farms in Griswold, CT plants over 14 acres of sunflowers and harvests approximately 300,000 blooms for viewing pleasure [...]

Photo of the Week #70: “Learning the Fun Way” “This older child teaches her young siblings in an easy and fun way. From Philippines.”-Klienne Eco This image was submitted to Our World is Kind [...]

Photo of the Week #69: “My Best Friend” “This picture shows how kind children can be. They love everything around them. Photo taken in Finland.” This image was submitted to Our World [...]

Photo of the Week #68: “Four Our Honeymoon” “We met in Lisbon, on a student exchange program and very soon realized that, besides the love for dancing, we share a unique love for each [...]

Photo of the Week #68: “Source of Life” “In a small village in Mozambique, children of the community celebrate a newly restored water-well by the volunteer organization VOX United. I [...]

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”-Sara d’Ettore (Italy) This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography Contest.

Photo of the Week #66: “Kindness” “Three small bundles of kindness and their loving hostess.”-Pavel Savelov This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography Contest.

On World Kindness Day 2019, we reached out to the Envision Kindness community and asked them to share stories of kindness, joy, and love. Today, we share Albert’s story from Hyderabad, India. [...]

Photo of the Week #65: “Kindness Through a Kidney” “The decision and journey to donate a kidney was almost two years in the making. And it was a decision and choice [to donate to a [...]

Photo of the Week #64: “My Friend” “This boy shows his affection towards to his favorite pet pig.” -Klienne Eco, Philippines This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography [...]

On World Kindness Day 2019, we reached out to the Envision Kindness community and asked them to share stories of kindness, joy, and love. Today, we share Subhash’s story. Subhash tells the story [...]

Photo of the Week #63: “Helping Hand” “The youngest member of the group during the visit to York City is being carried to the restaurant located in a building used as a watch [...]

Photo of the Week #62: “Praying for Each Other” “This photo is from 1st of April, 2014 in Burauen, Leyte, Philippines. I was one of the official photographers of the relief [...]

On World Kindness Day 2019, we reached out to the Envision Kindness community and asked them to share stories of kindness, joy, and love. Today, we share Maribeth’s story. Maribeth’s [...]

Photo of the Week #61: “Mother and Child” “What else than a smile can express the satisfaction of a mother after breastfeeding her child!”-Ghanshyam Kahar This image was submitted to [...]

This is a photo I took in Novi Sad, Serbia, where I live.  This sight absolutely blew me away. A young boy was approaching the street player and gave him some money. I see adult people [...]

On World Kindness Day 2019, we reached out to the Envision Kindness community and asked them to share stories of kindness, joy, and love. Today, we share Alyssa’s story. For two years, Alyssa was [...]

Photo of the Week #59: “Prism Rainbow” “Students for the first time visit inside the lantern room of New London’s Harbor Lighthouse, Connecticut.” -Susan Tamulevich This image [...]

Photo of the Week #58: “Motherhood” by Abu Rasel This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography Contest.

  On World Kindness Day 2019, we reached out to the Envision Kindness community and asked them to share stories of kindness, joy, and love. Today, we share Hicham’s story. Hicham’s story [...]

Hi, What I really struggle with, and why we are not kinder to ourselves, each other and the natural world, is because of ignorance – ignorance that means we do not know what is for our [...]

Photo of the Week #57: “Pandesal” “A piece of pandesal (salt bread) a popular breakfast in the Philippines is given by a woman to a beggar.” McLoyd Jumpay This image was submitted to [...]

Photo of the Week #56: “Brothers” “One sibling cheetah grooms another.”-V. Ricci This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography Contest.

Photo of the Week #55: “Kindness is to share with a friend to the last” “These are children from the village, not far from Odessa, Ukraine. Every day when they woke up, they [...]

Photo of the Week #53: “Foals” “2 foals in Sibillini Mountains National Park, Italy.” This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography Contest.

Photo of the Week #53: “Mom” “Young mother at a photoshoot with her little daughter whom she still nurses. Periodically her daughter Victoria ran up to her mother and hugged her [...]

Photo of the Week #52: “Free Hugs” “The photo was taken in Lacrosse, Wisconsin and depicts a Packer fan holding up a sign that reads ‘Free Hugs’ as a symbol of kindness on [...]

Photo of the Week #51: “Looking Out For Each Other” “Young kids spontaneously held each other’s hands to offer friendship, safety, and caring. Independence Square, Philadelphia, [...]

Photo of the Week #50: “Rowdy and Carter” “Friends and strength through vitiligo in Portland, Oregon.” This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography Contest.

Photo of the Week #49: “Kindness in Every Look and Word” “I’m the mother of this wonderful girl. Children are our wealth. That sincerity, the light that they radiate gives warmth. The [...]

Photo of the Week #48: “Raising the Roof” Text: “In this photo we are raising the roof on the house we helped build for Habitat for Humanity. This house is now our home, and I will [...]

Photo of the Week #47: “Helping Mom” Text: “A little girl helps her mother make fishing nets in Vietnam.” This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography Contest.

Photo of the Week #46: “Kisses” Text: “This girl was the sweetest, always there to help her classmates when they were in need, whether that be in the classroom or in the playground. This [...]

Photo of the Week #45: “A Helping Hand” Text: “I took this picture in spring 2017 in Essaouira, a Moroccan town on the Atlantic coast. Close to the harbour people gathered to watch sunset. [...]

Photo of the Week #44: “Help Others” Text: “In the picture, a man is helping children during floods in Bangladesh.” This image was submitted to Our World is Kind Photography Contest.

Photo of the Week #43: “Kindness Among Nightmares” Text: These two nuns received refugees from Kosovo conflict. This picture means kindness can exist indeed inside the worst of situations. This [...]

Every day, with our daughter, we go for a walk with our beloved dog named Ray. When the sun went down over the horizon, I made such a self-portrait of our cheerful and friendly family. The photo [...]

Photo of the Week #41: “Homeless Man Finds Joy From We Care Kit” “We partner with Welcome Home: Tiny House to pass out We Care Kits to people living on the streets in Los Angeles. This [...]

Photo of the Week #40: “Home Run” “The photo was made in Kaokoland (Namibia) in 2016. The Himba children were running back home. Still not sure about the reason of their happiness, but in the end [...]

Flowers For Grandma…..These two cousins are my grand children. They ran ahead of me and picked these flowers and said “These are for you Grandma.”

Photo of the Week #39: “Coney” “A wonderful image of a father and son captured at Coney Island, New York. The body language of their shadows tells everything about the moment.” This [...]

Photo of the Week #38: “Mother’s Love” “Motherhood can be such a happy experience with moments of love and care for her child.” This image was submitted to Our World is [...]

Photo of the Week #37: “Amazing Day” “An encouraging anonymous note left on a car windshield after rain in Eau Claire, WI.”-Spencer Kopp This image was submitted to Our [...]

Photo of the Week #36: “Care for Nature” “A local kid from Quezon, a province in the Philippines, showing some kindness to nature.”-Klienne Eco This image was submitted to Our World [...]

Photo of the Week #35: “Little Love From The Kitty Katz” “This image is representing a non-profit photoshoot for these kitties.”-Sarah Powell This image was submitted to [...]

Photo of the Week #34: “Bond” “Kindness is not a human exclusive trait. It is found in all creatures and my image depicts the close bond of mother and child.”-John Scott [...]

Photo of the Week #33: “Namaste” During a celebration in Nepal, a girl joins hands greeting Namaste, which means “the God who lives in me salutes the God who lives in [...]

“This image is of my granddaughter and my labrador, Raven. In this moment they shared a connection, reaching out towards each other without words. It also shows that even though we come from [...]

Photo of the Week #31: “Summer of Love” Photo and Text by Emman Foronda “Love is best when it is shared. By then, true happiness is achieved. There is nothing more fulfilling than being [...]

Photo of the Week #29: “Let Me Help You!” Photo and Text by Ingrid Haddock “This photograph was taken in the hallway while a preschooler was helping another child zip their coat.  At our [...]

Photo of the Week #30: “Mother’s Love” Photo and Text by Aisse Gaertner “Marmoset taking care of its baby. The photo was taken in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This image was submitted [...]

Photo of the Week #28: “Read and Share” Photo and Text by Emman Foronda “These less-fortunate children who live near the Cemetery Angono Rizal, Philippines show their eagerness to [...]

Photo of the Week #27: “Feeding The Butterflies” Photo and Text by Alfonso Franco “Some people feed the birds. I like to feed the butterflies that come to my garden.” This image was submitted [...]

Photo of the Week #26: “Looking After My Baby Sister” Photo and Text by Jenny Reynolds “My niece is looking after her new sister. She loves and cuddles her.” This image was taken in the U.K. and [...]

Photo of the Week #25: “Looking For Human Warmth” Photo and Text by Marianna Smolina “A boy has met a cat, who so needed love and tenderness. Russia.” This image was submitted to our 2018 Our [...]

Photo of the Week #24: “Sharing With Others” Photo and Text by Froilan Robas “The photo symbolizes giving and sharing to those who are in need.” This image was submitted to our 2017 [...]

Photo of the Week #23: “When Winter Comes” Photo and Text by Sandeep Sahani “Varanasi, India. Migratory birds from Siberia fly several miles away from the cold Arctic regions and prefer [...]

Photo of the Week #22: “Help Spread” Photo and Text by Somenath Mukhopadhyay “A little boy is helping his handicap father spread the clothes to dry beside a river on a summer day.” [...]

Photo of the Week #21: “Made for Each Other” Photo and Text by Sudipto Das “A little girl helps an elderly ill person cross a canal at a remote village in West Bengal, India.” This [...]

Photo of the Week #20: “Foals” Photo and Text by Vittorio Ricci Two young horses (foals) in Sibillini Mountains National Park, Italy. This image was submitted to our 2017 Our World is Kind [...]

Photo of the Week #19: “Mother and Daughter” “It’s a special bond that spans the years. Through laughter, worry, smiles and tears, a sense of trust that cannot be broken, a depth of love [...]

Photo of the Week #18: “Motherhood” Kindness is inherent in nature. The seeds of kindness are sown from the time one starts the journey of life. Photo and Text by R. Sanwal This image was [...]

Photo of the Week #17: “New Life” Photo by Yuan Peng “Honey is sweet, but a little baby is even sweeter” This image was submitted to our 2017 Our World is Kind Photography Contest.  

Photo of the Week #16: “Children caring for children” Photo and Text by Pauline van der Spuy There are so many orphans in Cambodia that children are caring for children in some areas.  They look [...]

Photo of the Week #15: “Hope for the future” Photo and Text by Mercedes Mehling I took this photo at the Pride Parade in Portland, Maine this year. Every year the city shuts down Congress Street [...]

Photo of Week #14: “Care” Photo and Text by Pranab Basak The baby lamb was motherless just after birth, but the village woman was taking care and playing the role of its mother. A story of [...]

Photo of the Week #13: “Life Despite War” Photo and Text by Rasha Najeh Taken in the old city of Aleppo, Syria in 2017.  Despite war, children find a way to show love and caring. This image was [...]

Photo of the Week #12: “The Guardian Angel” Photo and Text by Carlo Gennari “A mother who cares and helps grow her own son step by step … what is more kind?” This image was submitted to the [...]

Photo of the Week #11: “Save Us” Photo and Text by Takbir Mappe The kindness of a mother’s love is found in all living beings. This image of the proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) or the Dutch [...]

Photo of the Week #10: “Giving our Hands and Hearts to Show” Photo and Text by Jeanne Malgioglio “Madison (Connecticut, USA) Middle School’s KARE club has adopted the Center for Family Justice. [...]

Photo of the Week #9: “Reflection Of Childhood” Photo and Text by Ziaul Huque “Childhood is the important part of our own life. So don’t waste your time and enjoy your childhood moment. We only [...]

Photo of the Week #8: “Love” Photo and Text by Alireza Tabibiyan “Love is everything. Love is the reason of why we are here. Love is the first step of kindness. Love makes people happy through [...]

Photo of the Week #7: “Immortality & Brothership” Photo and Text by Serena Liu “This photo was taken in my hometown. The two objects on the shot look like real people’s hands but they’re [...]

Photo of the Week #6: “Kindness Will Save The World” Photo and Text by Alinka Sydykova “My name is Alinka. I wanted to reflect how the world will be kind when people are kinder. This photograph [...]

Photo of the Week #5: “Butterfly Love” Photo and Text by Tina DeMarco “My daughter made a butterfly garden and takes care of her caterpillars and butterflies. Here she is with one who she named [...]

Photo of the Week #4: Save Water Save Life Photo and Text by Nimai Chandra Ghosh “A little girl is helping an old man by giving him drinking water in the moving train in India. The old man was [...]

Photo of the Week #3: Genuine Photo and Text by Lloyd Ericson Genuine kindness begets genuine joy. “Twas my first time joining an outreach program and after experiencing the overflowing fun and [...]

Photo of the Week #2: Signs of Love Photo and Text by Mark Daniel Bosito “Mary Joy, a young member of Jehovah’s Witnesses study and share what they learned about sign language for kids who are [...]

Photo of the Week #1: Peace and Tranquility Photo and Text by Leyla Emektar “Peace is established beginning from our surroundings. I believe it starts with loving your siblings, friends, [...]

Since a chance meeting with Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the author of “On Death and Dying,” I’ve been studying and working with thanatological (end of life) and related issues. [...]

Kind Business #16 Forrestall Consulting is a successful social media marketing firm in Pasadena, CA. Led by Shanna Forrestall, the company has been incredibly successful, producing digital [...]

Kind Business #17 Nice Work! When entering We Olive Pasadena, customers are greeted by the welcoming smiles of We Olive staff and the intoxicating aromas of locally sourced olive oil, [...]

#NiceWork! Post 15 Tuft and Needle is a national mattress company on a mission to spread compassionate comfort. The company is an innovator in both premium mattress production and providing those [...]

#NiceWork! In Sarasota Florida, a kind teacher is on a mission to promote both child literacy and good fashion. Kaitlin Lambert, teacher Alta Vista Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, is [...]

#NiceWork! When confronted with the devastation of hurricane Maria, Store Rooms Self Storage in Marlborough, MA served as a venue of kindness for those most in need. Locally owned since 1996, [...]

#NiceWork! Connecticut Realtors is a realty trade association based in East Hartford, CT that unites realtors all across the State. They have a long established culture of kindness, a legacy of [...]

#NiceWork! Dr. Yugal Behl, an orthodontist in Hampton Roads, VA wants all of his patients to have a beautiful spirit and smile. To do so, Dr. Behl recently launched “Smile it Forward,” a creative [...]

#NiceWork! After taking a trip to Germany, the owners of Wasserhund Brewing Co. turned their passion for good times, great people, and German beer culture into an opportunity to serve the [...]

#NiceWork! Born as an espresso cart in 1986, Kaladi Brothers Coffee has grown to be a staple of Alaska. Today, Kaladi has fourteen locations across the State and one in Seattle, and they produce [...]

#NiceWork! Woven into the fabric of Yosemite National Park’s western border is Evergreen Lodge, a social enterprise whose residence welcomes travelers from all walks of life and offers the [...]

#NiceWork! Great Harvest Bread in Anchorage, Alaska  does phenomenal business. For the past several years, it’s held the top spot in sales for restaurants in Anchorage. But their success can’t [...]

NiceWork! A cup of Young Mugs Coffee is more than filtered coffee grounds, it’s a cup of kindness. Zeppo Young, owner and roaster of Young Mugs Coffee in Webster, MA, has successfully turned his [...]

Sometimes, you need to go somewhere where everyone knows your name. For many Memphis, TN residents, Manna House is just that place. A colorful safe haven for community members who are down on [...]

#NiceWork! When you enter Bennett’s Books in Deep River, CT, you’ll find nothing but cozy. Between narrow corridors and massive columns of books, you’ll meet the warm and welcoming owner, Colin [...]

#NiceWork! Bitty & Beau’s Coffee Shop in Wilmington, N.C. has some of the most special baristas, greeters, and cashiers in the business — they all have Intellectual and Developmental [...]

#NiceWork VOW! VOW Transportation doesn’t just help its passengers get where they need to go, it gives them the opportunity to achieve more. Vision of Winning (VOW) and its founder and CEO, [...]

#NiceWork! Amanda Brackett, owner and founder of Southern Connecticut Wine Company in Wallingford, CT, creates some of the most interesting wines on the East Coast (try their blends).  But when [...]

Brewed Awakenings is serving community, one cup of coffee at a time. At this warm little coffee shop in Newark, Delaware, people are the focus. The shop is known for hosting residents from all [...]

We often hear about how humans should have more compassion towards animals. There are often stories in the news about unkind treatment of animals by humans. We were raised to respect our fellow [...]

Cycling Without Age is an international non profit organization that provides the elderly with opportunities to remain active in their day to day lives. Volunteers use trishaws to take their [...]

Love Yourself Enough. It is a simple enough quote, but holds so much more meaning, especially to those that have attended Camp Otyokwah, in Butler, Ohio. Camp Otyokwah is an overnight summer camp [...]

In this video, Anne Marie Gefell, an adult burn survivor, recaps what it was like going through the physical and mental trauma of a burn injury without a support system. Now Anne Marie is the [...]

Poverty, hunger and homelessness are a continuing issue in Memphis, one of the poorest big cities in America. St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen has been an ongoing source of comfort and need for many [...]

The North Pole Fantasy Flight is a charity flight, put on by Delta, for children dealing with a life-threatening illness. Patients from local children’s hospitals take a fantasy flight to [...]

The name Simply Smiles meant so much more after reviewing this story submitted by Evelyn Fenick. The photo submission name “Give” lends us just a little insight into the amazing [...]

Bitty & Beau’s Coffee Shop in Wilmington, N.C. isn’t just any old coffee shop, Amy Wright was inspired to open Bitty & Beau’s Coffee Shop as a way to create jobs for [...]

Keep Our Neighbors Warm, now in its 5th year, is an annual event put on by the Women with a Vision Ministries here in Connecticut. The most recent event took place on Saturday, December 10th at [...]

The town of East Lyme, Connecticut was touched by the most beautiful holiday gesture at the end of 2016. A customer of Twist Yarn Shoppe in Niantic, CT  decked the local town green with knit [...]

Catholic Charities of West Tennessee teamed up with Bishop Martin Holley for their event, Gifts for God’s Children”. Catholic Charities is right on the front lines helping the needy in one [...]

Sometimes kindness is not just about being kind to others, but also being kind to ourselves. We often believe that most of our lives are under our control, the reality is that so little of it [...]

Dr. Robert Bolding is a man who has always found comfort and joy from music. These days Dr. Bolding can find companionship, love, and joy at an unlikely time in his life thanks to friends and [...]

Bouquets of Hope, breathes new life into gently use floral bouquets by turning them into smaller arrangements that are then delivered to patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and retirement [...]

The video is a original film by Megan LeMay, a student of Three Rivers Community College. It features a compilation of three situations that display acts of kindness. One scene has a little girl [...]

Miranda, on the left, is a teenager from California visiting her extended family in Allentown, PA. Her family and our family happened to be in the Hamilton Family Restaurant at the same time. In [...]

Opportunities for acts of kindness are all around us.  Here, students from Three Rivers Community College imagined that opportunity through a simple tire change.  The driver sees a stranded [...]

SECOND ANNUAL EASTERN CT WALK AGAINST HUNGER A remarkable moment occurred during the pledge of allegiance before the fundraising walk began. Kids learn from a very young age about supporting [...]

A cool video worth watching.  What we give today can come back tomorrow, or much later.

When one high school student was diagnosed with cancer, his friends shaved their heads in solidarity so he wouldn’t be the lone bald student at the prom.

One morning, en route to the office on an otherwise regular Monday, I found myself craving coffee. This was unusual because usually morning-me is running on enthusiasm and copious amounts of [...]

Kindness can be about just spending time with someone.  In this image, Kassow and Inger Marie talk about time, memory and family. That day, he read to Inger a letter from a distant niece from [...]

Christopher is 9 years old and one of several children help out at a 2014 Thanksgiving Food Drive to support the Connecticut Food Bank an Gemma Moran Food Pantry. This is his fourth year doing so [...]

Even though I have never met you, I know something very basic about you. It is quite likely that you have had several experiences of beauty during your life. You have looked at a movie or a [...]

Like humans, animals clearly can show empathy and caring for others, including humans.  These are images from Waterford Country School, a unique school in Connecticut that, as part its mission, [...]

A younger sister comforted by her older sibling.  Kindness and empathy can be seen in children from a young age and is probably an interaction between the empathy that they are born with and the [...]

Children learn by watching what others do, particularly their parents.  Here, a little boy watches his father wait and hold the door for an approaching elderly woman.  Bet that he will hold the [...]

Brenda has donated almost 3 gallons of blood over her lifetime.  Turns out, that’s critical, because someone in the US needs blood about every 2 seconds; about 44,000 pints of blood across [...]

It is really hard to imagine that every day around the world millions of people don’t have enough food. Statistics are important but don’t really show the stories of people who need [...]

  People usually try to debunk the strategy of using kindness as a means to success by citing Darwin or Dawkins. But I think they are twisting or just plain misunderstanding what the [...]

David Gaz, James Fowler, Sara Glaser and Brandon Schott were on hand at Stanford Univerity’s CCARE, The Center for Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at the Stanford [...]

  On the island of New Britain, anthropologist Jane Goodale witnessed a group of Kaulong children play a game after they had been given one banana each. Their play, however, did not resemble [...]

Here is a terrific book by Dr. Donald Pfaff that scientifically demonstrates how humans are hardwired for kindness. The main premise is that humans are born ‘prematurely’ in comparison to all [...]