#26Acts Of Kindness, Remembering Rachel D’Avino

#26Acts Of Kindness, Remembering Rachel D’Avino
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This post is extremely difficult for me to write.  Nothing we do will ever bring back any of the victims of the December 14th 2012 shooting in Newtown, CT. Just to think of that day, and those lives lost, washes me in a feeling of sadness, and despair.  The world continues to turn,  we all go on, we went back to routines like putting our kids on the bus to school, and going to work. But we are changed. In an attempt to counterbalance the horror with some good,  members of the Global Team of 200, including myself, are joining Ann Curry’s  #26Acts of Kindness movement by participating in a blog relay and link-up of  26 Act of Kindness.  We have committed to remembering the victims of the Newtown shooting with 26 bloggers posting for 26 days, each day highlighting one individual victim, and promoting the idea, initiated by Ann Curry, of 26 act of kindness.

“After the experience in Newtown. I thought, “What if? Imagine if everyone could commit to doing one act of kindness for every one of those children killed in Newtown.” So that’s what I tweeted. And guess what? People committed. I said in my tweet, “I’m in. RT if you’re in.” Not only did they commit to 20 acts of kindness, they wanted to up it to 26 acts of kindness for every child and adult who was lost at the school.”- Ann Curry

 

#26Acts of kindness will hopefully inspire ongoing, simple, daily acts that touch each other’s lives.  Kindness to your loved ones or strangers, acts large or small. Acts of kindness towards each other to perhaps make this world a better place.

Nothing we do can bring Rachel D’Avino back to her family, to her boyfriend, soon to be fiancé, or to all of the possibilities her young life still held. From all accounts Rachel would light up a room with her smile.  She had recently started working at Sandy hook Elementary as a teachers aide with special needs students, and was completing her Ph.D. at the University of St. Joseph of Hartford’s Institute for Autism and Behavioral Studies.

Her boyfriend had just asked her parents permission to ask her hand in marriage.  She had a whole life ahead of her, but instead is being remembered as a hero for having shielded children with her own life.  I have always greatly appreciated my own children’s teachers, but this tragedy has made me look at them in a whole new way. We entrust our children to their teachers every day, and Rachel gave the ultimate sacrifice for the kids in that school that day. My heart goes out to her friends and family, may she rest in peace.

It was a completely senseless day, and in my personal opinion the one and only modicum of sense that could possibly come from any of this, is gun control reform that could save lives in the future.  In the meantime I will take part in #26acts of kindness or (#27)  along with others around the world.

Messages and information on Rachel D’Avino can be found on the Rest In Peace Rachel D’Avino Fund on Facebook.

If you’re participating in #26Acts of Kindness please share some ways that you are doing so.

Are you participating in the #26Acts (or #27Acts)?If you’re participating, link up your blog posts telling us what you’re doing. If you’re not participating and want to tell us why not, we’ll take those blog posts too. Link up!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I wrote this post as part of The Global Team of 200, a highly specialized group of members of Mom Bloggers for Social Good that concentrates on issues involving women and girls, children, world hunger and maternal health.

Our Motto: Individually we are all powerful. Together we can change the world. We believe in the power of collective action to help others and believe in ourselves to make this world a better place for our children and the world’s children.

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