Acts of drive-by kindness
Traveller finds acts of goodwill addictive
Stefano Andriani, 20, is driving across Canada committing 'random acts of kindness.' One of his favourites is offering an umbrella to a couple seeking shelter from the rain.
Photograph by: Jean Levac, The Ottawa Citizen
When Stefano Andriani sees a couple in the rain, he hands them an umbrella. If he sees hungry people on the street, he asks them to join him for lunch.
The 20-year-old from Dartmouth, N.S., doesn't ask for much in return. He just hopes that the people he helps will go on to be kind to others.
"I'm out there to show people how much fun kindness can be," said Andriani, who is currently in Ottawa, one of the stops on his journey across Canada to do random acts of kindness for strangers. He calls it Travel Kindness.
"Once you try it the first time, you'll quickly get addicted," he said.
It all started during the spring after Andriani graduated from the Nova Scotia Community College where he studied film production and decided he wanted to travel across the country.
"I thought, why don't I make it worthwhile? There are good deeds to do everyday, I saw it as a neat challenge."
He said he had noticed a decline in kindness in society and a lack of social awareness of others.
"We help out and take care of the people around us, but not necessarily those we don't know."
While in the city, Andriani has helped an elderly man paint his house, taken pictures for tourists at Parliament Hill, tried to smile at each person he passes and treated the homeless to lunch among other things.
The 20-year-old from Dartmouth, N.S., doesn't ask for much in return. He just hopes that the people he helps will go on to be kind to others.
"I'm out there to show people how much fun kindness can be," said Andriani, who is currently in Ottawa, one of the stops on his journey across Canada to do random acts of kindness for strangers. He calls it Travel Kindness.
"Once you try it the first time, you'll quickly get addicted," he said.
It all started during the spring after Andriani graduated from the Nova Scotia Community College where he studied film production and decided he wanted to travel across the country.
"I thought, why don't I make it worthwhile? There are good deeds to do everyday, I saw it as a neat challenge."
He said he had noticed a decline in kindness in society and a lack of social awareness of others.
"We help out and take care of the people around us, but not necessarily those we don't know."
While in the city, Andriani has helped an elderly man paint his house, taken pictures for tourists at Parliament Hill, tried to smile at each person he passes and treated the homeless to lunch among other things.
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Acts+drive+kindness/3750449/story.html#ixzz145qHWaPv
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