DUBAI: For many people around the world, pandemic lockdowns have been isolating and sometimes dispiriting experiences. Families have been confined to apartments and houses, children were forced to attend classes through computer screens in their bedrooms, and parents worked remotely from whatever space was available in their homes. Amid the gloom, one of the happier results is
For many people around the world, pandemic lockdowns have been isolating and sometimes dispiriting experiences. Families have been confined to apartment
DUBAI: For many people around the world, pandemic lockdowns have been isolating and sometimes dispiriting experiences. Families have been confined to apartments and houses, children were forced to attend classes through computer screens in their bedrooms, and parents worked remotely from whatever space was available in their homes. Amid the gloom, one of the happier results is
DUBAI: Small acts of kindness can go a long way. Taking this wise adage to heart, one young Saudi has created a social initiative that encourages people to perform good deeds and the beneficiaries to repay the kindness to others instead of to the original benefactor.
Pay It Forward is a worldwide social initiative active in more than 80 countries. First established in Australia over a decade ago, it took its inspiration from the 1999 novel by American author Catherine Ryan Hyde and the movie adaptation of the same name, in which a schoolboy creates a goodwill movement.
Basma Altwejri, 26, brought Pay It Forward to Saudi Arabia in March 2016 to help change perceptions of giving and day-to-day acts of kindness.