Showing You Care During a Pandemic
Now, more than ever, we understand the need for empathy and understanding in our world. As we isolate, we feel the human drive to interact and to connect with those around us.
While we're sheltered at home, empathy is why we flatten the curve, check on our elderly neighbors, and thank essential workers.
But many children are having difficulty coping with their young lives being turned upside down.
During this time with schools closed, we’ve refocused our energy on not only providing teachers and parents with free empathy-related educational materials at home, but ensuring they have hope for tomorrow.
I Choose Empathy Resource Website
We’ve created a new free resource to help teachers and parents educate while at home.
“I Choose Empathy” is a new website filled with art projects, games, reading guides, videos, acts of kindness, quotes, and research to make sure that teachers, children, and parents can engage with empathy and compassion in a fun, thought-provoking way.
We will continue to add more content and expand the resource and time goes on so that kindness can become a part of daily life and the education of each child.
Live Stream Classes and Virtual Field Trips
With the launch of “I Choose Empathy,” we’ve started offering free online Zoom classes for grade school students across the country and beyond. In each class, a book is read, the children discuss the book, and then the students do an easy, accessible art project that ties it all together.
These classes promote social-emotional learning, to help spread empathy and help kids process complex feelings.
Not only are these available regularly for individuals, but we’re working with teachers and schools and offering them privately as “virtual field trips.”
Empathetic Response to Meet Community Needs
In these times we do what we can to keep each other happy, healthy & safe.
Other projects we’ve been a part of to help ease the pain of this pandemic include:
Weekly deliveries to those in need
Over 3 tons of food delivered to date
Donating face masks to groups in need
Sending prepared meals to the hungry
HELP US TO SUPPORT OUR VITAL PROGRAMS AND MAKE OUR HOPE FOR A MORE COMPASSIONATE FUTURE A REALITY. WHEN THE DOORS RE-OPEN AFTER THIS CRISIS ENDS, THE WORLD WILL NOT BE THE SAME AS IT WAS BEFORE. LET’S MAKE SURE THAT THE WORLD WE ENTER INTO IS A KINDER ONE. LET’S BUILD THE KIND, EMPATHETIC LEADERS OF TOMORROW TODAY!