Dignity Health recently partnered with Kids for Peace to sponsor the 2018 Great Kindness Challenge. Now in its fifth year, this global program aims to inspire students to make a lifelong commitment to service and kindness. The event challenges participating students to complete a checklist of 50 acts of kindness in one week, including such things as holding the door for someone, helping a friend or picking up trash.
This year, physicians and staff from Dignity Health — Glendale Memorial Hospital taught students at Cerritos Elementary about the healing power of humankindness. Physicians led a “Teddy Bear Clinic,” showing students how to listen carefully while displaying compassion for others. Students also decorated “Thinking of You” cards, which will be delivered to area fire stations as a thank-you to the thousands of firefighters who recently battled the California wildfires.
