Pay it forward to Sleeping ChildrenFrom the Hamilton Spectator, November 18, 2008:
PAUL MALLEAU
THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR
HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
(Nov 18, 2008)
In our class, we learned about something called Pay It Forward, and we have been practising it. Pay It Forward is about doing something nice for someone for no reason. You just do something kind to be nice. Maybe the person whom you are nice to will do something nice for someone else. Then that person will do something nice for someone else, and it keeps on going. If we all do it we can make the world a better place. Sometimes it is just a smile or if a family member is sick, I make them chicken soup.
-- Kayla Wood, Hillcrest Elementary School
This is all about an act of kindness. It can even save your life. When I was little (about five years old) a car almost hit me and my friend Stephanie, who was 11 years old. We were walking across the road. The car was coming, so she pushed me onto the sidewalk. The car hit her leg and broke it, but she was OK. I will always remember that she did such a good thing to help me, so I always try to be nice to other people now.
It will make the world a better place if we even help one person a day to feel good.
-- Kanisha Kuhun, Hillcrest Elementary School
Pay It Forward is all about being nice to people. Sometimes we pay people back for what they do, but now we pay it forward so even if they are not nice to us, we are nice to them. We are paying it forward to the Sleeping Children Around the World because we have had a penny drive and raised more than $800 to send to the children who do not have a nice place to sleep. Last year, we raised more than $1,000. Maybe the kids in Africa will pay it forward to other kids.
