Every Monday at AE/MS, students meet after school to plan and perform acts of kindness for their school community and for their community at large. The premise of the club is to spread kindness to everyone.

The club is designed to liberate the inner desire to treat others with kindness and respect. We want to start a chain reaction in our school community.

The club is open to students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Currently, there are 39 students who regularly stay after school. It is wonderful how the older kids work with the younger kids and the conversations that they have with each other in regard to who and what to help. Some ideas are: help feed animals, help the elderly, show our gratitude to our firemen, policemen, and the list goes on.

We are currently facilitating a winter coat and snowpants drive at the school to help local residents. Students just finished making Christmas cards that they will send to Boston Children’s Hospital and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. The cards will be delivered before Christmas with the intent that children will receive them on or before Christmas.

“I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go.” –Rachel Scott.