10th Annual Helping Hawks Goes Virtual
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
The Office of Student Engagement and Inclusion, Alumni Engagement, and the Student Government Association are taking our annual Helping Hawks day of service virtual this year! During these uncertain times, we’re looking forward to participating in acts of kindness alongside you as a UHart community. Mother Teresa said, “Do small things with great love,” and this year’s Helping Hawks is going to be a compilation of acts that may seem small, but make a large impact.
We’ve shared some ideas on our Instagram (@uhartengagementandinclusion) of things folks can do to participate in virtual Helping Hawks, and now we want to see the ways you’ve been demonstrating caremongering during this trying time; caremongering is a movement encouraging acts of kindness, especially to help vulnerable people. To get you excited and thinking about ways you can participate, here are some of our favorite suggestions of acts of kindness we can do from home and/or a social distance:
- Running errands for elderly or immunocompromised neighbors
- Organizing a “bear hunt” in your neighborhood- everyone puts a teddy bear in a window at the front of their homes for neighborhood kids to find on walks
- Finding creative ways to thank essential employees for all they are doing to keep our communities fed, safe, clean, and healthy
- Writing cards to people in nursing homes who can’t have visitors
- Leading a game of social distance Simon Says for the neighborhood kids
- Sewing fabric masks for local healthcare professionals
Feel free to share your pictures or videos of your acts of kindness and caremongering, and we’ll share them with the rest of the UHart community this weekend. If you post on social media, please tag us and use the hashtag #UHartHelpingHawks; if your profile is private, feel free to direct message us your pictures so we can share them! You can also email photos, videos, and updates to licote@hartford.edu.
Thank you for banding together with us to spread kindness, love, and joy to our world as a UHart community!