Good Deeds

One good deed

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The national police in the Philippines encourages their force to do at least one good deed every day. Read more here.

What is a good deed?
An act you perform to/for others without expecting anything in return.

Stuck for ideas of what to do as a good deed?
Go here from Hub Pages. Not all good deeds require money.
Or here from Canadian Living.
O here from one person’s blog who tries to do a good deed every day for a year.

1GD (100 Good Deeds) has a cause that is inspiring. Read here to see how they encourage you to perform selfless acts of kindness anonymously.

Make someone else’s day! Get some joy back in your life.

Good Samaritan

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Who is a good Samaritan?
“A person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress”

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Thank you Jamie Harrington from Dublin, Ireland for taking the time to talk to someone who needed help.
You are a good Samaritan.
Read about his good deed here.

Selfless

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Selfless
Harman Singh made my day yesterday. His selflessness touched me. He removed his turban to help stop the bleeding of a head wound of a child who has just been hit by a car. He acted without thought. You might be thinking how kind but it goes further than that. Harman is a Sikh. Sikh men wear turbans for religious reasons. Aside from covering hair the turban or dastar represents honour, self-respect, courage, spirituality, and piety. They never show a bare head in public.

Selfless Sikh praised worldwide article

Look before you leap doesn’t always match the ocassion. Sometimes it is better to leap before you look. Perhaps he has read W. H. Auden? Thank you Harman for caring.

Ebola, Ebola, Trust the doctors

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Listening to this song makes my heart sing. It makes me feel light and I am so in awe of the talent and the dignity of the artists.  The theme of the song is a heavy one but it handled with so much care, Ebola the invisible enemy. To spread awareness about Ebola in song is the perfect medium to educate people and encourage people to visit a doctor.

I saw Salif Keita in concert in New York at the Apollo Theatre a few years ago. Seeing Salif Keita in the video brought back those memories. I remember walking to the theatre not realising that walking a hundred and ten blocks would take so long. I know!  At the time I didn’t really think of the distance in terms of more than a hundred blocks more like just a little further than the top of Central Park and on the map it looked a fair distance. In fact it was far, much too far. We like walking and New York is a fantastic place to walk usually. Anyway we got to about 100th Street and admitted defeat. We were running out of time and energy. We hailed a taxi and got dinner on the way at Zoma, an Ethiopian restaurant then taxied the rest of the way to the Apollo Theatre. It was a truly memorable concert. Salif Keita is a Malian singer songwriter and is well known in Europe as a successful “African star of world music.” (Salif Keita does a solo starting at 2:00 on the YouTube video)

MUSIC
Africa Stop Ebola – Tiken Jah Fakoly, Amadou & Mariam, Salif Keita, Oumou Sangare, Kandia Kora, Mory Kante, Sia Tolno, Barbara Kanam and rappers Didier Awadi, Marcus (from the band Banlieuz’Arts) and Mokobe
(with English subtitles)

What Emma did

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Such a fine speech, so eloquent, so British, so honest.
Her words were heartfelt, her nervousness was just enough, she shone.
Well done Emma Watson!

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
By Edmund Burke

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Emma Watson UN Speech September 21, 2014