- Apologize first
- Ask “What can I do to make your day better”
- Always keep your word
- Adopt a pet from a shelter
- Answer the phone
- Bake something for someone else
- Be an athlete for Bibles with Open Doors
- Be kind to someone who annoys you
- Become an Organ Donor
- Become a Sea Rescue Volunteer
- Become a Volunteer or Help Raise Funds for Newkidz on the Block
- Become a TWD (That Was Different) Activist
- Befriend a stranger
- Buy a candy bar for the cashier
- Buy an inspirational book for someone
- Buy food from Luke’s Cafe in support of Huis Zonnekus
- Buy Three Avocado Coffee for Water
- Buy the Big Issue
- Become an Ocean Ambassador with Two Oceans Aquarium
- Become a Sunflower Volunteer and/or Register as a Stem Cell Donor
- Buy a box of cookies and offer them around to strangers
- Buy vegetables from community urban gardens
- Be patient with others
- Cheer up someone having a rough week
- Clean up after someone else
- Collect and Donate Bread Tags for Wheelchairs
- Compliment people (be genuine)
- Call a friend instead of sending a text
- Call your parents
- Clean the bathroom after everyone has used it
- Do a Charity Walk
- Do a Random Act of Kindness
- Donate a Baby Box
- Donate Books – Durbanville Kinderhuis
- Donate Blood
- Donate Clothes at a St Luke’s Hospice Charity Shop
- Donate Hair for Cancer
- Donate Magazines to a doctors/dentist office
- Drop off toys/towels at an animal shelter
- Donate to or Volunteer at Nazareth House
- Donate to a disaster fund
- Do not judge
- Dedicate a star to someone
- Feed a Homeless Person
- Finish a punch card and give it to someone else
- Forgive someone
- Find a Cause through ForGood to Volunteer at or Donate to
- Get a MySchoolCard
- Get Active for Bibles
- Get involved as a Kennel Volunteer at Tears
- Get my hands dirty at a Greenpop Nursery Day
- Give new parents a night off
- Give Back / Volunteer on Mandela Day
- Get involved in one of the projects at Jesus to my Rescue
- Give your mom the night off and offer the make dinner
- Give someone recognition on your blog or website who deserves it
- Give your partner/friend a back or foot massage
- Give a bottle of wine to your hairstylist/beautician, etc
- Help an Endangered/Injured Animal
- Hold the door open for a stranger
- Help a disabled person
- Help someone who wants to lose weight by being an exercise buddy
- Have a coffee at Brownies & Downies
- Have a magazine subscription sent to a friend’s / elderly persons house
- Invite someone to dinner
- Invite a neighbour over for scones and tea
- Join a Beach Cleanup
- Join the Bible a Month Club
- Join the Cows and help Support Children with Cancer
- Join The Gideons International in their quest to distribute Bible
- Knit Vests & Beanies for the preemies at Newborns Groote Schuur Trust
- Leave a nice note & generous tip for your waiter
- Leave an anonymous gift for someone you like
- Leave an anonymous gift for someone you dislike
- Leave change in a vending machine
- Let someone ahead of you in line
- Listen to someone who has a problem
- Let your partner/friend sleep in
- Leave some change at the coffee machine
- Let people through in traffic
- Let a debt go that someone owes
- Leave positive comments on someone else’s blog
- Leave positive comments on friends’ social media accounts
- Mail a birthday card
- Make a care package for someone in need
- Make someone a cup of tea
- Make someone else’s bed
- Make positive observations about people
- Offer to do a favour for a friend
- Order Aspire Coffee and help someone with a disability
- Offer to carry an elderly person’s grocery shopping
- Pay it Forward at Massimo in Houtbay
- Pick up some litter
- Plant trees at a Greenpop Reforest Festival
- Pledge a Birthday to support Charity Water
- Pledge to reduce plastic trash
- Pray for Bible Societies, Compassion
- Put change into Someone’s Expired Meter
- Put together a care package for a pensioner
- Put your phone away
- Pay for a friend’s coffee
- Reach out to someone going through a tough time
- Reach out to someone who has inspired you
- Recycle
- Respond to emails, texts, and phone calls from friends and family
- Send a friendship card to someone
- Send an old friend a birthday message
- Send birthday cards to the elderly
- Send someone a surprise in the mail
- Show up even if you don’t want to
- Sponsor a Child
- Support Cansa’s Shavathon
- Support Red Sock Friday
- Support Ster Kinekor’s Vision Mission
- Support the Sanitary Pads Campaign
- Support Vintage Coffee
- Support a Funny Money Vendor
- Support I am Special Ministries
- Smile and greet everyone, even if they don’t smile back
- Say Thank You
- Show affection to your friends and family
- Say thank you when other drivers let you through
- Share herbs from your garden
- Share a good recipe
- Save water
- Support a new business
- Take ice-creams for the lifeguards
- Take gifts/flowers to an old age home
- Take part in the Santa Shoebox Project
- Teach a child to read with Help 2 Read
- Teach a child to swim
- Tell your parents that I love and appreciate them
- Talk to a homeless person
- Telephone a lonely person
- Teach your kids kindness
- Take the garbage out for a friend
- Treat a friend to dinner and/or a movie
- Tell your children that you love them
- Sit with your child in front of a mirror and help them say affirmations
- Volunteer at a Shelter
- Volunteer at a Soup Kitchen
- Volunteer at SANCCOB
- Volunteer with Waves for Change
- Volunteer, Pray or Give at Living Hope
- Volunteer with Development Through Sport
- Volunteer with Badisa
- Volunteer with Align Ministries
- Walk a Dog for a Rescue Company
- Write and send a handwritten letter to someone
- Wear or use a gift they gave you in their presence.
- Write a thank you note to someone
- Write a referral for someone who you know is looking for a job
- Wash the dishes
- Support NOAH (Home, Health, and Happiness for Every Social Pensioner)
- Be a kind/patient driver
- Get involved (volunteer/donate) with Habitat for Humanity
- Join the Volunteer Wildfire Services
- Buy an Amy Biehl Relate ‘R’ Bracelet
- Get Involved / Pray for Global Education Ministries
- Get Involved / Volunteer at Steps (Clubfoot Support)
- “Adopt” an Elderly Resident at the Douglas Murray Home
A lot of the places mentioned above are based in South Africa, but there are so many more ways to do good and be kind all over the world. Most of them are so easy to do and you do not have to have money in order to do a good deed. The world has enough haters, let’s all do what we can to be a little bit kinder today and/or help someone less fortunate than us.
“Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large”
Shari Arison
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