World Kindness Day on 13 November

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Singapore will be celebrating World Kindness Day on 13 November, and Yellow Gerbera Daisy will be given away to show appreciation to an everyday kind person.

Celebrate everyday kindness on 13 November as Singapore joins countries such as Japan, Canada, Australia, United Arab Emirates, and Nigeria in celebrating the World Kindness Day.

In Singapore, the focus for this year is on "showing appreciation to kind people and acts of kindness". The Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) is adopting the yellow gerbera daisy as the flower to represent kindness. SKM is encouraging everybody to give a daisy to an everyday kind person around us and will be distributing 45,000 yellow gerbera daisies at numerous locations across the island on Friday, 13 November 2009, while stocks last.

The gerbera daisy is the fifth most popular flower in the world after roses, carnations, chrysanthemums and tulips.

Daisy symbolises Random Acts of Kindness

If you wonder why the daisy was chosen as the symbol for the random acts of kindness, here's the explanations:
1)Daisies open every morning to the sunrise, just when the random acts of kindness begin.
2)Daisies are simple and beautiful, just as random acts of kindness.
3)Daisies are found everywhere, just like grass, kindness is everywhere like daisies and grass- just look within yourself.
4)Daisies come in different colours and sizes, random acts of kindness do too- they are only limited by your imagination.
5)Daisies can be made into daisy chains. random acts of kindness can be done one after another in chains- each person passes the kindness forward.
6)Daisies have given us pleasant memories playing in a field of daisies as children,random acts of kindness leave pleasant memories that people remember.
7)Daisies have healing properties, just like kindness heals.

Thus, the humble daisy was chosen to represent random acts of kindness.