Friday September 2, 2011
www.rakd.com.au
Pay for someone's petrol / Help someone across the road / Buy someone's groceries
Give flowers / Pay for the person behind you at the drive thru
Send a pizza to a company for lunch / Mow a lawn / Wash windows
Weed a garden / Cook a meal
What is RAK’d?
RAK’d is an awareness campaign that occurs on the first Friday of September each year and encourages individuals to reach out and do something kind for someone else, no strings attached.
Why RAK someone?
As each person commits a good deed, he or she sends out into the community a ripple of kindness that is magnified by every life it encounters, so that every good deed makes a difference. Kindness is infectious!
How Did It Begin?
Now a pastor at Church180, Phil Camden, formally a pastor in New Zealand, ordered a couple of pizza’s before a church service and thought to himself that it be great if the congregation could give the pizza delivery guy the greatest tip he had ever had. The generous congregation agreed and the pizza boy, a student, walked away with a $820 tip. Word from this one Random Act of Kindness got around so quickly and the story was so popular that it inspired the creation of an annual National Random Act of Kindness Day in New Zealand.
How do people get RAk’d?
They may have their lawns mown, their petrol paid for or flowers delivered to them for no reason at all.
Who can be and who is involved?
Everyone in the community are invited to make a special effort to do a random act of kindness for someone else.
What’s in it for me?
Committing Random Acts of Kindness brings delight and goodness to not only the recipient but also to yourself. It promotes you as being a positive influencer to create a better community and environment here in the Hunter Region.