Pakistanis have different backgrounds and traditions, like different colours and fragrances of flowers in a garden. It is important to keep each individual’s uniqueness integrated and make adjustments to a more personal space to appreciate the difference in culture, values, views and viewpoints in rebuilding a unified Pakistani nation. Expression of Kindness can be a promising initiative in building national harmony while equally recognizing all Pakistani cultures and traditions for an integrated and patriotic nation.
With the expression of Kindness we can bring the values like empathy, forgiveness, compassion and consideration back into our lives. This can revolutionize our lives by developing our ties within our families, society and obviously the entire Pakistani nation.
Green Homeland Pakistan in association with Kindness Pakistan launched year 2023’s first activity ‘Kindness BINGO 2023’ to bring empathy, peace and social harmony among various parts of society in the building of a unified and patriotic Pakistani nation. The activity inspired students and their families to spread love, compassion and kindness for their fellow countrymen with an opportunity of winning exclusive prizes and rewards from Green Living Pakistan and Kindness Pakistan.
Kindness Bingo 2023 was a fascinating and colourful venture for the students and their families. The students of category 2 and 3 were to read 25 kindness stories in their respective guidebooks and to select and order five best kindness stories out of those into a specific ‘BINGO Pattern’ and express their learning in the creative writing. While the category 1 students and their families were to produce kindness art and creative writing on the given kindness words. In making the activity even more fascinating we announced lucrative prizes and rewards for the participants and the schools administration. The results of Kindness BINGO were announced in May 2023, and all prizes and participants’ certificates were dispatched to the participating schools and campuses within May.
Kindness Bingo 2023 – Background
As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, “Six only!” The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: “So sorry, plenty of room in my heart — but the bus is full.” He left behind a row of smiling faces. It’s not what you do; it’s the way that you do it. ~A glimpse from the Friendship Book of Francis Gay
One sees these small acts of kindness in our everyday lives, the unsaid gestures, most of which we take for granted.
We live in time of insecurities, violence and intolerance. Our world has changed, where every little act expects a reward and kindness is taken as a sign of weakness. In reality Kindness is the greatest power which could successfully win the minds and hearts. With the expression of Kindness we can bring the values like empathy, forgiveness, compassion and consideration back into our lives. We need to inculcate this habit not only for ourselves but for our future generations to come. It’s a challenge not just for our children, but also for us to add to our daily lives.
Pakistani nation has great potential as kind and benevolent citizens which it has proven many times over and over again. However, our society has divided, over the time, into many fragments in the names of sects, backgrounds, languages, ethnicities, politics and faiths. Intolerance towards one another on basis of these notions has led to social differentiations and disharmony, which is disintegrating the true spirit of one unified Pakistani nation.
Ethnic, regional, sectarian and linguistic differences cause lack of national unity and produce divide among the citizens and cost the nation very dearly in terms of patriotism, unity and harmony. Such condition produces a kind of mercilessness and apathy among the fellow citizens which really weakens the ideological frontiers of the nation.
Kindness Bingo
‘Kindness Bingo’ is a fascinating game for the students and their families who are to rate the kindness stories into a specific order to win lucrative prizes. The impact of Kindness Bingo on the participating families is however much greater than merely winning a prize.
The participating families read 25 Kindness stories from the specific Kindness Guidebook of the respective category, provided by ‘Green Living Pakistan’ to bring them into the BINGO order and win lucrative prizes.
In fact there is something in ‘Kindness Bingo’ for everyone who joins. There are hundreds of thousands rupees lucrative prizes for the participants. Moreover, Every participant of the Kindness Bingo is to secure a highly valued Participation Certificate. The tale of the awards and prizes is not finished yet. Indeed, the greatest of the rewards by being part of the Kindness Bingo is your wonderful contribution in developing a unified and patriotic Pakistani nation.
The real outcome is the inspiration for Kindness. When we know about stories of kindness being done to others, we’re inspired to do the same. This inspires us for doing the “little things” to make big differences in the lives of others. Then we start doing this in the name of love, not recognition, and we receive LOVE back from so many of the people we reach out with our sincere acts and expressions of Kindness. This is human psychology – most of us are alike.