In an ef­fort to do their part dur­ing World Kind­ness Day yes­ter­day, the non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion, Ross Re­Think dis­trib­uted hun­dreds of free meals such as dou­bles, bake and shark, cof­fee and choco­lates. at their head­quar­ters on Gray Street, Port-of-Spain.

From as ear­ly as 5.30 am, scores of peo­ple lined the streets to sam­ple the fare and the flow of peo­ple con­tin­ued un­til close to 11 am. 

The man­ag­er of the or­gan­i­sa­tion, Chester Par­ris, spoke on the im­por­tance of be­ing kind to one an­oth­er and the mis­sion Re­think was try­ing to ac­com­plish.

“Each per­son re­ceived some­thing and re­ceived it in a dif­fer­ent way and that’s what we are all about.

“We are try­ing to touch peo­ple and the widest spec­trum of peo­ple with a sim­ple mes­sage that could have a rip­ple ef­fect,” he ex­plained.

Par­ris said the or­gan­i­sa­tion want­ed to set an ex­am­ple for oth­ers to fol­low and mo­ti­vate cit­i­zens to love them­selves and to give back to so­ci­ety.

“We as in­di­vid­u­als must first be kind to our­selves, and re­alise the val­ue we have, to give to oth­ers in sim­ple ways.

“We are here to en­cour­age Trinidad and To­ba­go to share kind­ness,” he said.

This is the fourth year that the or­gan­i­sa­tion has con­duct­ed the ini­tia­tive.

World Kind­ness Day, which is cel­e­brat­ed on No­vem­ber 13 every year, was in­tro­duced in 1998 by the World Kind­ness Move­ment, to serve as a re­minder of the pos­i­tive im­pact that kind­ness can have and to en­cour­age cit­i­zens to per­form in­ten­tion­al acts of com­pas­sion.