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Once you recieve a dakband, begin by registering them.Do this before you pass them on. Registering the bands allows you to track them as the travel through communities.

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Schools, colleges and educational programs throughout North America have adopted the dakbands as part of leadership initiatives, and community building lessons.
  
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About dakbands

dakbands are a fun, thoughtful way to encourage and honour acts of kindness in our communities and around the world. We believe that kindness changes everything. If we change people’s focus by fostering other centeredness, we will indeed build safer, more inclusive, compassionate communities. We want everyone to Live kindly and band together because the alternative is no alternative.

Community is friendliness based on shared interests and a sense of obligtion, and in order to create engaged citizens – individuals willing to serve their communities – each of us must contribute something of ourselves. Dakbands, have been created as a tool that organizations, communities and individuals can adopt and integrate in various ways into their won projects, visions, goals and outcomes.

How Dakbands work

Think of dakbands as an ongoing game of tag. Those are caught doing something kind, are tagged and now they are “it”. They are on the lookout for acts of kindness that they can acknowledge with dakbands.

         

step 1

Individuals are given (or purchase ) a package of 8 dakbands – 4 pairs.

step 2

If you have purchased, or been given a package of dakbands, begin by registering the bands on our website. Once registered begin wearing your bands in pairs and start looking for acts of kindness.

step 3

When you witness an act of kindness, acknowledge it by giving the person a pair of dakbands

Here’s how it could play out:“Excuse me. I just saw you doing something really kind. Here are two dakbands, they are for deliberate acts of kindness within our community. One is for you to keep and one is for you to give to someone else you see doing something kind. “

step 4

As you give away all 4 pairs of dakbands, those 4 people will give bands to 4 more people, and so on, and so on...

step 5

In community we will all be able to recognize and be on the look out for individuals wearing dakbands. We’ll know instantly who has been recognized for their kindness, compassion and empathy and we’ll also be motivated to do something kind, in order to be offered some dakbands!