50 years ago, Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson founded Childhelp, to protect children and families from child abuse. Today, their mission remains the same but with a multi-pronged approach to helping children in every possible way. Knowing that the Childhelp organization was founded in Scottsdale, I felt it necessary to take the time to visit their facility while in town. Robert Bell, a Child Advocate with great knowledge and passion for protecting children and his associate Gabby Ghan met with me today. This very busy facility houses all the agencies under one roof, enabling the child to only have to be interviewed once, about very damaging personal information. April is National Childhood Abuse Prevention Month, if you can do anything to help children or wish help children, contact Childhelp at their website; www.childhelp.org Today I rode through the downtown area of Phoenix with the signs from my previous Domestic Violence an Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention ride. Ethan the pastry chef from the Pink Pony restaurant in Old Town Scottsdale, near the locations I would park everyday, created a wonderful dessert for my travels this afternoon. Valerie from Scottsdale Public Art also helped The Kindness Bus Tour before Bogart and I left town. You can never be too far from friends, as I ran into my dentist Dr. Arthur Broad DDS, and the Cunningham family, who were childhood neighbors of mine.
Please help us spread our message of a Goal of Kindness to schoolchildren across the country. Your donations are crucial to making this a reality.
Mail donations to:
One Million Acts Of Kindness
PO Box 770054
Lakewood, OH 44107
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Bogart is my travel companion on The Kindness Bus Tour for the next ten years. We will be on the road traveling to campuses across the country. Bogart is a eight year old Boston Terrier. He is a great people dog... he loves meeting new people. I am Bogart's fourth owner in his short 8 years of life... Not because of him but because his three previous owner's lifestyles changed after they took him in... Lucky for me!! Bogart is the luckiest, most spoiled dog on the face of the earth. He loves the bus and he loves to travel. Please come and visit him when we are on your campus.
The Blue Bird Corporation donated this amazing bus to One Million Acts of Kindness, allowing us the continue this initiative. It has been painted to closely resemble the original Kindness Bus. It will last well beyond the ten years of this mission. A very big thank you to Blue Bird from Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The original Kindness bus has been donated to a professor at Virginia Tech who will use it on campus and at schools in the Blacksburg area. The Kindness Bus will continue to inspire and comfort residents, students and visitors in that area for years to come.
One Million Acts Of Kindness is a goal. A goal for each person to individually perform One Million Acts Of Kindness in their life. Can you imagine a greater goal for one's life? It is a constant mind-set of kindness every day of your life for the next fifty-five years. Doing for others and kindness in your heart for everyone. It is my wish that you will dedicate your life to a charity... finding the passion in your heart for something or someone in need.
As a father of three college age kids I am concerned for the world in which all kids will live. A great way to create a safer, more caring world is for everyone to start their lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness. So I bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten year journey with my Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince as many of you as possible about this much needed movement for this world. I love you guys too much to sit back and not do anything about this. Let's start a kindness movement in this country today to change the direction this world is headed!! You are the change that this world needs.