Students in the Lower Dauphin School District are doing their part to inspire kindness in the community, and it’s going a long way.

“This is the Be Kind campaign. It’s basically just to promote kindness in the school, promote just a sense of general goodwill, good feelings toward yourself, your friends, your family your community.” junior Anna Given said.

Lower Dauphin Communities That Care and the Lower Dauphin Connections Club teamed up for the Be Kind initiative, which includes performing good deeds.

“Basically, we just write down things that we would like to hear from other people, things that we know would be encouraging to see,” junior Arden Baker said.

“We had to handwrite each note and then put them on the lockers. There are more lockers than kids, but we wanted to make sure everyone would have one,” senior Kimberly Wolf said.

Students wear the message on T-shirts, too.

A Be Kind calendar is on the way.

“Every day there will be a different Be Kind initiative people can take. One of them is to smile at five people in the hall,” Given said.

Small acts of kindness warm the hearts of recipients.

“It means the world. It means so much because I think all of us go through bad times in life. All you have to do is reach out and that makes such a positive impact,” junior Olivia Sharrow said.

The Be Kind initiative is being used at all grade levels.

The Connections Club is offering a “Be Kind” T-shirt to the public. The cost is $8. You can buy one for yourself and donate one to a student who can’t afford one. Payments are due by March 15.