CommunityExampleToronto · yesterday
A take-one-leave-one umbrella stand appeared at Union Station overnight.
Nobody knows who built it. It is already half empty and half refilled.
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TellLink it to what moved you. The ripple grows by one.
Everything below is imagined: 43 example deeds that show how this works. They are not counted, and nothing can grow from them. The first real deed could be yours.
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AnimalExampleHanoi · yesterday
Put out water bowls for the street cats behind our market after reading about the Mumbai birds.
Six regulars. My daughter named them all.
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PersonExampleCairo · yesterday
Walked a lost boy home through Sayeda Zeinab and would not take the father's money.
The father now sends his own kids to my pharmacy for everything.
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CommunityExampleMelbourne · yesterday
Copied the Auckland umbrella box at Flinders Street station.
Eleven umbrellas out, nine back, on the first rainy day.
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PersonExampleLisbon · yesterday
I give the street sweeper breakfast every morning at my café in Alfama, since I read about the pharmacist in Cairo.
He sits down now. He used to eat standing.
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CommunityExampleTehran · yesterday
We share a pot of soup every Thursday evening with the building's janitor and his family, since reading about the ferry in Istanbul.
His kids know everyone's name now. So do we, theirs.
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PersonExampleTokyo · yesterday
I walk an old woman home at nine every evening after my shift at the convenience store in Sugamo, since reading about the stairwell in Osaka.
She waits for me with a sweet. The walk is the best part of my day.
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PersonExampleBangkok · yesterday
I refuse fares from students on my motorbike taxi at Victory Monument during exam week, after reading about Tokyo.
Three of them came back with pastries after their results.
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CommunityExampleWellington · yesterday
Built a take-one-leave-one umbrella box at the top station of the cable car, after reading about Auckland.
It is the third city with a box now. I painted a small wave on it.
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CommunityExampleOsaka · 2 days ago
Started sweeping our shared stairwell after reading about the dog bowls. Two more households now take turns.
The stairwell smells of lemon. People stop and talk.
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CommunityExampleAuckland · 2 days ago
Left a box of umbrellas at the ferry terminal with a note: take one, leave one.
The box is still full a week later. People bring them back.
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CommunityExampleAddis Ababa · 2 days ago
We painted a zebra crossing outside our own school in Piassa with leftover paint, after reading about Soweto.
Drivers stop. The headmaster pretends he did not see who did it.
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AnimalExampleDhaka · 2 days ago
I keep a clay pot of water for the stray dogs next to my rickshaw stand at Gulshan 2, since reading about the birds in Mumbai.
The dogs guard my rickshaw at night now.
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PersonExampleReykjavík · 3 days ago
Drove a lost tourist back to her hostel at 2 am and would not take her money. I had read about the crossing in Cape Town that morning.
She told the whole hostel breakfast about it.
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NatureExampleWarsaw · 3 days ago
We dug a small pond in the courtyard for the hedgehogs and the birds.
Two hedgehogs drink there at dusk. The kids keep watch.
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CommunityExampleKyiv · 3 days ago
We handed out socks and hot tea on Kontraktova Square to anyone waiting for the night bus, after reading about Dublin.
Two hundred pairs gone in an hour. A second table is planned.
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PersonExampleIstanbul · 3 days ago
Carried a blind man's bags onto the Karaköy ferry and sat with him until his stop, after reading about the crossing in Seoul.
We swapped numbers. He now rides my ferry on purpose.
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PersonExampleSeoul · 4 days ago
Walked an elderly man with a cane across a six-lane crossing near Jongno, then went back for the bag he had forgotten.
He got home with everything. I missed my bus and did not mind.
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CommunityExampleAccra · 4 days ago
We market women at Makola fixed the blocked drain by the fish stalls ourselves after the Lagos roof story went round.
No flooding in last week's rain. First dry market day in years.
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AnimalExampleLima · 5 days ago
Started leaving a bowl of water for the street dogs outside my shop on Jirón Ica after reading about the bus fare in Nairobi.
Four dogs drink there now. The corner feels friendlier.
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AnimalExampleMexico City · 5 days ago
Stopped my bus in traffic to carry an injured dog to the pavement and called a shelter. I had read about the umbrella the night before.
The dog has a home in Coyoacán now.
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PersonExampleHelsinki · 5 days ago
I drive the tram at Hakaniemi. Waited a full minute for a father running with a pram in the sleet, after reading about the gloves in Stockholm.
The whole tram clapped when they got on. I pretended not to hear.
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CommunityExampleLagos · 6 days ago
We traders at Balogun market pooled money to fix the leaking roof over the old shoemaker's stall.
He works dry now. The roof covers his neighbours too.
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PersonExampleDublin · 6 days ago
Left a bag of warm socks and a flask of tea by the Ha'penny Bridge with a note saying take what you need.
The bag was empty by morning and the flask was rinsed and left back.
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PersonExampleNairobi · a week ago
I read about the umbrella. Today I paid the matatu fare for a woman who had lost her wallet.
She got home. I felt lighter than the fifty bob I spent.
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AnimalExampleMumbai · a week ago
Built a shaded shelter with water for the crows and pigeons beside my tea stall during the heatwave, after reading about São Paulo.
Dozens of birds rest there in the afternoon now.
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PersonExampleStockholm · a week ago
Gave my spare gloves to a man sleeping rough at Slussen after reading about the umbrella in Malmö.
He waved at me the next morning.
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PersonExampleMalmö · a week ago
A man at the bus stop gave his umbrella to a soaked teenager, then walked off into the rain.
She got to school dry. Three of us at the stop just stood there smiling.
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NatureExampleChicago · a week ago
Our block in Pilsen turned the vacant lot on 18th Street into a pollinator garden.
Eleven households dug. The lot has a bench now.
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PersonExampleNo place given · a week ago
I started leaving one honest compliment a day on a sticky note at work.
One of them kept hers on her monitor for a month.
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NatureExampleVancouver · a week ago
We pulled forty bags of plastic out of False Creek after seeing the Jakarta canal clean-up.
A heron was fishing at the spot the next morning.
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PersonExampleToronto · a week ago
A barista wrote “you've got this” on the cup of a woman crying quietly by the window.
She laughed. She came back the next day to thank him.
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NatureExampleCasablanca · a week ago
My class planted mint and geraniums along the dusty wall of our school in Hay Hassani, after reading about Berlin.
The wall is green. We make tea from the mint.
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PersonExampleBogotá · a week ago
I write one line on every cup for the night-shift nurses from the clinic next door.
One of them keeps the cups. She has a shelf of them.
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NatureExampleJakarta · 2 weeks ago
Our class cleaned the canal near Kampung Melayu after seeing the Berlin flower strip.
Two truckloads of rubbish gone. Kids fish there again.
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CommunityExampleJohannesburg · 2 weeks ago
We taxi drivers in Soweto repainted the faded stop signs along our own route one Sunday morning, after reading about the crossing.
Two fewer near-misses a week, the rank marshal says.
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PersonExampleManila · 2 weeks ago
I keep a whiteboard by the door of my jeepney in Quezon City: free ride if today is hard. I read about the barista in Toronto.
Nobody abuses it. Most people pay double the next day.
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NatureExampleBerlin · 3 weeks ago
Someone planted wildflower seeds in the dead strip of soil along Weserstraße.
Bees in June where there was only dust.
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CommunityExampleCape Town · a month ago
Volunteers in Muizenberg repainted the faded pedestrian crossing outside the primary school. Nobody asked them to.
Cars stop now. The teachers noticed first.
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PersonExampleSantiago · a month ago
Started knocking on my neighbour's door across the hall every Sunday after reading about Melbourne.
He has started baking for the visit.
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PersonExampleMelbourne · a month ago
Started checking on my eighty-year-old neighbour once a week after reading about Hanoi.
He now waits by the gate on Thursdays.
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PersonExampleKarachi · a month ago
I carry an old tailor's sewing machine up to the rooftop every morning so he can work in daylight, after reading about the baskets in Hanoi.
The tailor made me a suit. I wore it to my graduation.
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PersonExampleHanoi · a month ago
A student carried an elderly woman's market baskets up four floors every Tuesday for a year.
She still calls him her grandson.
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