Kindness in the world, from a young child in the elementary years, and what motivated him to do this is this desire, to help the elderly population stay warm through the winter season, from the Newspapers, translated…
It would take about twenty hours to a day, to knit a hat from start to finish, but, for a child in the Chih-Xien Elementary School, it’d taken him two whole months, knitted up a hat, so the elderly living in the Ren-Ai Home of Langyang, Jiaoxi, to have the hats to keep them warm. Yesterday, the elementary students delivered their completed hats to the nursing home, and put them on the elderly’s heads, making the elderly feel warm from head to toe and inside out.
The Chih-Xien Elementary School worked with the not-for-profit organization, “Dandelions”, gotten involved in the community, to learn, they’d decided to make something by hand, to give to the Ren-Ai Home in Langyang. After the students and teachers discussed it, they’d decided that staying warm is important, especially with these series of cold fronts hitting, they’d decided to give the hats made of yarn, and had the experts in knitting the yarn hats to come after school to teach, along with during the weekends, and the students were able to make the hats by hand.
the student, Chen, in a photo op with Mr. Lee, wearing his handmade hat, photo from the Newspapers online…
“Because it was my very first time, I’d continually knitted the wrong way four times, and had to take them apart and redo them”, the sixth-grader, Chen told that he’d never knitted before, and as he was beginning to knit the hats, the instructors went over the steps, and yet, he just couldn’t, quite get it; later on, he’d discussed it with his classmates, slowly gotten to know how, but, was still not at all that familiar with the needle work. After he’d knitted for about a week, he’d realized, that he’d knitted wrong, and had to take everything apart to do over again, time and time again, he’d knitted four hats wrong, took them all apart four times, and reknitted them.
Chen said, that he’d felt defeated after he’d knitted the hats wrong again and again, but he’d told himself, that the elderly were waiting, for his hat to keep them warm through the winters, that he can’t give it up, and so, he’d, kept on knitting, and, he’d become, more and more skillful at it; after he was done knitting a head, he felt a lot of achievements.
photo from online…
Yesterday, the students delivered he hats they’d knitted to the Ren-Ai Home, Chen had put the knitted hat onto the elderly man, Grandpa Lee; Lee was very moved and told, these were great children, that he was warm from head to toe, from outside in! The other students also stated, that what they did was, meaningful to them.
So, this still just shows, how a little kindness, goes, a VERY long way, and this still all started with a thought, and, imagine how much hard work these children must’ve put in, to learn to knit, especially they’d not even learned to sew on a button yet, they’d taken on this difficult task and still, managed it quite well.
Life, the Obstacle Course 