Embodying kindness and love for her fellow man is hardly a stretch for Kayleigh Milligan, 11, as she hands out stretchy band bracelets in her effort towards the “Kindness Revolution.”

The “Kindness Revolution” was founded by Ed Horrell of Tennessee in 2007 to bring back dignity, respect and kindness to everyday life.

“It inspired me to bring the revolution here so everybody can be nice,” Milligan explained.

The object of the revolution is not to get a bracelet, but to give your own bracelet away. A participant wears a bracelet and gives it away to a person they do a kind deed for. The recipient of the bracelet is then to find someone else to be kind to and give the bracelet away again.

The bracelets are color coded. Yellow ones are for kids, blue ones are for adults, and the red and blue ones are for first responders.

Milligan, a sixth-grader at Johnston Hopkins Elementary, said first responders don’t have to give their bracelets away if they don’t want to.

“We just want to show them how much we appreciate them,” she said.

Milligan, a native of Texas and a resident of New Iberia for the last year, said she has given away about three-quarters of the 300 bracelets she has in her possession. She started her “Kindness Revolution” efforts about a month ago.

“Most people think that it’s a really good idea,and they want to try and do good too” she said.

Being kind doesn’t cost a thing, and neither do the bracelets, she said.

“They are 100 percent free,” Milligan said.

The not-for-profit group can be found at TheKindnessRevolution.net.

Milligan’s mother, Buffy Babbitt, said that she is proud of her daughter.

“I’m grateful that God has blessed us with such a philanthropic little girl,” Babbitt said. “I just kind of let her take the reins and do with it what she will.”

Milligan, who wants to be either a teacher or a lawyer, said that there was one thing she wanted to tell the world.

“Always be kind and polite to the people around you,” Milligan said. “Make the world a better place.”

 

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