The Kindness Bus is headed to Blacksburg, Virginia, six months later than planned but in perfect time.
May the beauty of the words written on the Kindness Bus bring comfort to those in need…in Blacksburg and throughout the world.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this move a reality.
Kindness always,
Bob and Bogart too
Today in my travels from Ealing to London and back again, I visited many popular spots in the center of London. Waves of people flooded some of the areas. The brightest spots of the day were the conversations. In today’s photo are Dave, Patrick and Simon. I was blessed to have a wonderful conversation with these three 8th graders and a couple of their friends about kindness in the UK spreading across the globe!
The Global Kindness Tour is safe and sound in London.
After my lodging for the entire sixty-three days in London fell through when I arrived, the wonderful people at AtoB Hotel are letting me stay for very cheap at their boutique hotel and for free on Sundays.
Their £30 price includes a full breakfast every morning…unheard of in one of the the most expensive cities in the world.
Early next week I will fly to London and visit that city for two months. I will ride the Kindness Bicycle, raising awareness for kindness, compassion, respect and gratitude.
Word of this mission is spreading across the globe and I wish to capitalize on it.
Bogart will remain in the states with family and friends. The Blue Bird of Kindness will be parked on a very busy road where it will get thousands of views per day.
Thank you to everyone who has made this trip a reality.
The very caring, philanthropic women at Winds of Change in Chagrin Falls, Ohio had their annual fashion show today at 37 West Orange Street. What a beautiful evening and very generous attendees.
They had a fundraiser during the fashion show to benefit One Million Acts of Kindness.
Thank you to one and all.
Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The Blue Bird of Kindness was the perfect backdrop today for the Mayfield High School Excel Tecc year end celebration. Two hundred students, parents, educators, faculty and administrators were on hand for the festivities.
Thank you to educators and friends, Rick Zivney, Mike Caldwell and Dave Hrudka for this annual invite. It was certainly a great way to spread word to the community.
Today we visited the 7th and 8th graders at Artemus Ward School in Cleveland, Ohio.
Over 100 students were very interested in my challenge to have them embrace kindness as a goal and find their passion to make a positive change in the world…it is possible!
Kindness always,
Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
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.
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