Urban Kindness Centers

Inside every village, there are enough kind people to make a radical change inside that particular community. What they need is a physical place and a concrete plan to organize.  Enlist the elderly of the community to cook three squares a day.  Grow a garden and raise hens, using youth labor.  A place to do laundry when you can’t get the coins together and your kids got to go to school.  Sometimes you need a roll of toilet paper or a box of tampons. Change of clothes. A pair of dry socks.  Maybe you have extra of those things and could drop them off and eat a meal, hang out with the chickens and watch melons ripening in the sun.  See, I have been rich and I have been poor.  I know how to make a difference.  I am a mother.  People need a place to BE.  Right now, its every man for himself and to hell with your neighbor.  Recent study found that loneliness is really bad for your health, and of course it is.  Its at the base of suicide. Its at the base of divorce. Its at the base of runaways.  So let’s stop that dead square in its track by making it a THING to have a Kindness Center where you can physically go.  Not a charity, not a church, just a place where KIND PEOPLE are.