Sacks Of Hope – Class Acts Of Kindness

To be rich is not what you have in your bank account but what you have in your heart. This thought is beautifully embodied by the Sacks of Hope project initiated by third and fourth grade students of teacher Leon Lewandowski in Room 9 at Franklin Elementary School in Santa Barbara, California. These students, who don’t have much themselves, got together to bring hope to homeless people by providing them with basic necessities. When schools start teaching kindness, ripples of positivity follow as evident from the popularity of the Sacks of Hope project which is now being implemented by other teachers at Franklin Elementary as well as teachers in different schools in California. Indeed kindness is contagious. Such small acts, when multiplied, will surely transform our world.