World Kindness Australia

Our purpose is to create a kinder, happier Australia, at home in our schools and in the workplace. WKA is a self funded National Not For Profit organisation with no religious or political affiliations and in September 2012 became the Secretariat to the 20 nation member peak Global body - the World Kindness Movement. Placing Kindness back on the agenda from our classroom to our staff room, to our board room and in the corridors of government. In 2009, at the request of a Sydney parent concerned about bullying, one school decided to celebrate World Kindness Week; With the success of one event, the concept led to a state-wide campaign, where World Kindness Week was placed on the NSW School calendar for 2300 schools by the Director General, Michael Couttes Trotter; The success of the campaign demonstrated that you did not need money to challenge bullying, you needed the will to. Goodwill. With that spirit, World Kindness Australia was formed to move the campaign forward and ensure that our children and our colleagues experience the joy that being kind to others brings to a community "It takes a Village to raise a child"- African proverb