year. The very first reported good deed took place in London, UK. What
does that mean for the world, and what is this all about?
"All good deeds no unnoticed," will
become a useless saying if The Good Deeds Organization has its way. It
began in 2007 and will be covering World Kindness Day in Britain on
November 13. The organization has recorded 500 good deeds this year.
The website was initiated in 2007
and like many with good intentions continues its good intentions. Yet
how many people recognize these organizations and what they are designed
to do, in recording good deeds and acts of kindness everywhere?
Few people admit to knowing about
these, as a telephone survey randomly done in Natchitoches, Louisiana
and Portland, Oregon found. Instead folks say, "We hear so much about
the bad news. I get tired of it. Why don't we hear any good news?"
Here are just a few this year cited by The Good Deeds Organization.
| 24/07/2010/Cal/South Florida/USA I would like to dedicate this week to Joseph. He is one of my website customers who carries an intelligent mind and he is also an amazing family man. I had no where to stay and he let me stay at his house for a while until I got on my feet, and also helped me out when i really needed it. He is a good man. Good Deeds go unpunished. This is dedicated to my good friend who believes in me as I do in him. |
 | 30/06/2010/Ashleigh /Mclean/USA yesterday my son jimmy saw his best friends brake his toy and started crying he give him his toy and told him to keep it. i rewared him with day out and Six Flags and icecream. i shows me that i thought my child right. :D |
 | 24/06/2010/Jonathan/Rotherham/England My brother Andrew has decided to put himself through an incredible test of pain and endurance to raise money for a cancer charity. He hasn't cycled since childhood in the 90s, but this September is cycling by himself to our Mum's house in Yorkshire - from his new home in Gibraltar! Our Mum suffered from breast cancer a few years ago but has now thankfully recovered. She is so proud of him and I can't help but admire Andrew's incredible attempt, dreamt up entirely by himself and at some personal expense. It will be 2500 Kilometres (1560 miles) and there's no guarantee he’ll be successful. It's so selfless and, to use his words, will "benefit the heroic sufferers and those researching a cure". |
Good news is reported regularly,
and there are organizations that stand up for good deeds, kindness and
charitable works. But these sites also declare they scramble for
recognition, even as they tout the very ideas they espouse as being
valuable, and so does the general public.
Ordinary, traditional news
organizations report good deeds and acts of kindness, so it's important
to give this recognition as well. For example, the Portland, Oregonian
reports how a politician, a Portland City Commissioner is working to get
a Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to an overlooked, and what he has
proven to be, an African American Man.
Nick Fish tells the Oregonian he
wants to right an old wrong. To do this, he is working with
Congressmen to get a World War I soldier recognition for heroism.
Fisher is a descendant of Hamilton Fish III, a white captain in the 369th Infantry Regiment, the first regiment of black men in the war.
Fish read about how a 40-year effort to get the regiment's most famous soldier, Sgt. Henry Lincoln Johnson of New York,
a Medal of Honor. Johnson, according to accounts of observers, friends
and buddies, was a railroad porter who during World War II in 1918
rescued a buddy when Germans attack and fought the enemy even as he
received multiple stab and gunshot wounds. He died penniless in 1929
without recognition of his heroism. Since the 1970's people in
government have worked to get Johnson the Medal. In 2003 Clinton gave
Johnson the Army's second-highest honor, but the top one waits for
history's new light and Fish's efforts behind it.
Fish claims no special light for
himself, but said to the Oregonian how
his grandfather represented doing the right thing, and he is determined
to follow that lead. An act of kindness, another good deed, being
noticed.
So the next time one wonders if
good deeds are being recognized, it's nice to know that an organization
wants people to provide information so they can be adequately tracked.
It's also important to know there is good news to report, along with the
difficult or unhappy news, in the balance of every day's information.
It's up to good readers to read it.
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