A Little Kindness can go a long way….

Recently I was listening to a CBC radio broadcast about cancer, listening to this broadcast sparked a memory from when I was in elementary school and junior high.

Back when I was my grade 6 year in a small town in Nova Scotia there was a young boy who had moved from Germany with his mother and sister. Unfortunately when they moved here about a month later the mother was diagnosed with cancer. For a long while the family kept it secret except from close friends and family, but eventually the mother wound up very sick and in a hospital.

Word had spread out about the mother being in the hospital, Most kids in the young boys class felt very bad for him and tried to comfort him about it. However the boy did not like to talk about it with anyone except his Close friends and family.

Then One day while I was in my 9th year his mother passed away and in my class we started a fund for him, people donated money and toys and gifts of all sorts for him, when he came back to school we presented him with it and a very large card with all of our signatures on it. Later that week we found out that him and his sister were going to have to go back to Germany to live with their father because they had no relatives in Canada to stay with, an elderly couple who lived not too far away from them decided they would foster them if it was ok with them and their father. The sister wanted to go back with her father but the boy stayed with the family they showed him much love and care as though he was always a part of their family.

Through the acts of kindness from friends and the family that took him in, he was able to finish high school with all the people that showed him much love and concern within the community.