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EVENTS
DANCE FOR
KINDNESS
May 15, 2012 marked the first Mission Day of New
York City non-profit Life Vest Inside.
Orly Wahba, educator and kindness leader, founded
Life Vest Inside in September of 2010 in response to a
tragedy in her community. In a fog of panic,
wondering how she could ever comfort her young
students amidst the community’s hardship, Wahba
was presented with the epiphany analogy of a life
vest. Inherently, a life vest stays afloat regardless of
forces pushing it downward. Wahba poetically
reasoned, ‘Through the kindness we bestow upon
others and through the kindness others bestow
upon us, we keep each other afloat through life’s
rough seas,’ and hence, Life Vest Inside was born.
Then Orly had a crazy idea to organize a WorldWide
event in honor of World Kindness Day, so she
reached out to her fans and put our idea out there.
What happened? She found 30 AMAZINGLY
committed Group Leaders. With 30 locations,
spanning across 15 countries and over 3,500
participants, Life Vest Inside’s WorldWide Dance for
Kindness was born.
Groups from across the globe join together to
perform a Kindness Freezmob/Flashmob to the
same song, same dance, all happening on the same
day.
The purpose of Dance for Kindness is to look beyond
ourselves – beyond the boundaries of our country,
beyond our culture, our race, our religion and realize
that we are citizens of the world and that kindness is
the common thread that unites us all.
Last year’s event took place on Sunday, November
10th 2019, in over 120 cities, 50 countries with over
20,000 participants.
Verita International School signed up for this event
back in 2015, adding Bucharest and Romania on the
list of cities and countries taking part in this annual
Flashmob.
Each year we made this a charitable event and we
raised money to help children in need with the
amazing support of our Verita community of
parents and friends.
Our students, teachers, friends and families have
danced each year alongside thousands of other
people all over the world, dissolving country
frontiers, ethnicity or race, proving that kindness
has no religion.
“Never doubt that a small group of
committed people can change the world,
indeed, it is the only thing that ever has”
~Margaret Mead
Life Vest Inside has taken the words of Margaret
Mead to the next level reminding people that a
small group of committed DANCERS can change
the world as well!
We are proud to be part of this international event
and we look forward to the next one, in November
2020!
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