Be Kind.

Social change in my opinion is the oil change for life, which keeps society as a whole functioning. If we aren’t able to address the problems that inhibit society from going forward we can’t progress. As the dimension of time is on a continuum; we as people must move along with it. Therefore, in order to sustain and preserve ourselves we must maintain ourselves. If we don’t address our problems they are much like Cancer; they will grow and eventually wipe us out. Luckily, we have social change research which helps to identify and fix these problems. Some of the several issues which social change research has covered include violence, tobacco use, sexually transmitter diseases, and

Today, I want to share with you a social change campaign a friend of mine started a few years back called the kind campaign. The campaign was started by two young woman Molly Thompson and another named Lauren Parsekian. I grew up with Lauren in the same neighborhood. She always stood out as she was well brought up, drop dead gorgeous, and just about the kindest person you would ever meet. The problem was in middle school and high school girls weren’t nice to Lauren because she was so beautiful. They made up rumors about her, would exclude her from social events, throw things at her and just flat out bully her without remorse.

In college Lauren decided she wanted to take action by creating a documentary regarding girl-to-girl bullying. After gradation her and Molly set out across county with a few other friends to film this documentary. Later on down the road, it turned into a full blown organization in which Lauren and Molly now travel internationally to various schools to give assemblies to young women about the effects of bullying. Their video won several awards and is still played in venues ad school throughout the nation.

 

So what does this organization do? Well their mission statement is as follows:

 

“KIND CAMPAIGN IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT BRINGS AWARENESS AND HEALING TO THE NEGATIVE AND LASTING EFFECTS OF GIRL-AGAINST-GIRL BULLYING THROUGH THEIR GLOBAL MOVEMENT, DOCUMENTARY FILM, IN-SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES AND EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUMS.”  -Kind Campaign

 

In other words, they have acknowledged a social problem within society, which is the viciousness of girl-to-girl bullying, and they have decided they want to diminish the negativity that comes from this issue. Both girls had experienced the consequences of bullying and therefore understood the negative effects it poses. In order to fix bullying situations that damage so many young girls’ self esteem as well as cripples them from living out their full potential Lauren and Molly have tried to reduce bullying through the promotion of the contrary action. Their goal is to dissuade young girls from being mean to each other by positively reaffirming how important it is to be nice. They also encourage girls to pledge not to be victims, meaning that they will pledge to not let what others have to say about them define them. On their website there is tab in which girls can state this pledge as well as apologize and declare forgiveness for situations where bullying has been involved.

Overall, this campaign is one of many that works to make the world a better place and smooth out some of society’s kinks. Anyone can do it. All it takes is someone using a personal experience of the damages that can result from an unresolved social issue such as bullying to make a change in other young girls lives all around the world. When it comes to promoting kindness, it think it’s something we could all have a little more of.

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“Join the Movement.” Kind Campaign. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2016. <https://www.kindcampaign.com/>.

1 comment

  1. Wow, I visited the website and I really admire what these women are doing. I think the hate that women show other women is appalling. We sit there and call each other all these awful names and poke fun at each. We need to stop attacking ourselves. We get mad when men say terrible things about us yet we are okay saying the same things about other women. Women need to be advocates for other women and we need to build each other up in this world. There are obstacles that we will face because we are women, we should not be adding to these issues. Next time you find yourself judging another girl by their outfit, hair, or their body shape stop and think about something good about her. Maybe even go over and compliment them. Start building each other up not tearing each other down. Always follow those two rules of treat others the way you want to be treated and if you cannot say anything nice don’t say anything at all.

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