us live in our 8 o'clock hour. >>> jaciel cordoba: Most parents teach their children to be kind to others but just how much of a difference does kindness make? >> eve tannery: In Life Lessons, WFMZs Nancy Werteen tells us about a national movement simply focused on acts of kindness. The organizers of this effort think that living in peace begins with our youngest members of the community.And they say kids can teach us a thing or two about how to be kind to other people. >>nat sound (working in a group) (:01) >>nancy: these young women are just a handful of the two million students worldwide who have made the promise... >>Hana 16 Years Old "i pledge to use my words to speak in a kind way." (:03) >>nancy: they know the pledge... >>Lenay 12 Years Old "i pledge to help others as i go throughout my day." (:03) >>Jessica 10 Years Old "i pledge to respect people in each and every land." (:03) >>nancy: they have made a promise. >>nat sound "i pledge to do my part and create peace for one and all."(:05) >>nancy: and hope to change the world through kindness. >>Jill McManigal Kids For Peace Co-founder, Executive Director "i hope they can create the world they want to grow up in." (:04) >>nancy: that's why jill mcmanigal (MC-man-eye-gull), a former school teacher and mother of two, started the non- profit kids for peace. >>Jill McManigal i know about the wisdom of children and so i just wanted to give kids a platform to be the peace builders that i believe they all are." (:06) >>nancy: from a couple kids in her back yard coming up with simple ways to make a difference in their community - to being invited to speak at the united nations-these kids are on a mission. >>Lenay 12 Years Old "i get to go around and put smiles on peoples faces and make them feel good about themselves." (:05) >>nancy: now they want to challenge you to do the same thing.for one week, they are asking students to do as many things on this list as they can. >>Hana "Smile at 25 people because its such a small thing but can make such a big difference." (:03) >>Lenay I'm going to put hearts on cars.I am going to go feed the homeless." (:06) >>Mira 14 Years Old "i always like baking cookies and delivering them to fire fighters." (:03) >>Jessica "Pick up five pieces of trash." (:01) >>Sienna 8 Years Old "i want to slip a note in someones backpack." (:02) >>Grace 5 Years Old "i think its two hugs for everybody." (:04) >>nancy: alex hall is an intern for kids for peace and knows each small act can make a difference. >>Alex Hall 17 Years Old "i was new.I moved to California two years ago and i know how it feels to have someone just talk to you and be nice to you." (:07) >>nancy: in three years , the great kindness challenge has grown from three schools to one-thousand and ninety-nine schools and last year. >>Jill McManigal "Those kids all together performed 27-million, seven- hundred-twenty-four-thousand, three-hundred acts of kindness." (:05) >>nancy: that number is expected to grow to more than one hundred million acts of kindness this year! >>Jill McManigal "The kids are performing kind act after kind act after kind act and that makes kindness a habit and as kindness becomes a habit that makes peace possible."(:07) >>nancy: cg the great kindness challenge runs from january 26th to january 30th.your school can sign up for free and get all the information at www dot great kindness challenge dot org.go ahead, try it.you might just end up changing the world. >>nat sound ("Let there be peace, yeah!") (:03) -- >>Nancy: Kids for Peace started in 2006 and is currently in schools in 36 countries.Nancy Werteen 69
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