Manitobans enjoy being known as friendly, but in a hectic world a little reminder can go a long way in helping maintain that reputation.
Students at Winnipeg’s École Tuxedo Park are doing their part to help spread kindness.
Teacher Kimberlie Fitchner-Jerez wanted a project for the school so she ordered a shipment from Kindness Coins.
“I thought I was holding something special,” said nine-year-old Safiya. “It could go all the way around the world.”
When the students see someone commit an act of kindness, they can reward them with a coin that can be tracked online.
“That was kind of the catch for me - that we can actually start in our own school community and watch it grow and maybe inspire kindness in our city, in our province, in our country and throughout the world,” said Fitchner-Jerez.
Safiya gave her coin to her mother, who passed it along to a friend, and several acts of kindness later it landed in the hands of this CTV Winnipeg reporter.
Safiya looked up the coin’s progress online.
“It says, ‘I received this coin as a thank you for cooking a nice dinner,’” she read from the screen.
“It’ll be interesting to watch where it goes.”
All the kindness coins in circulation can be seen on a map.
So far, coins from Tuxedo Park have made it as far away as Calgary and Florida but the students really want to see their acts of kindness spread across oceans like some coins originating in the United States have already done.
