Produced by the I-Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston.

Welcome to Kind World, I'm Yasminammer.

And I'm Andrea Aswah.

For the past few weeks, we've been asking you, our listeners, to call in and leave us voicemails

with your stories of kindness during the pandemic. And today we wanted to share a couple of our favorites

to start the show. Our first voicemail comes to us from 11 year old Juniper McGrath. She's in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

The first few days of quarantine, I tried to savor every bit of it because it was just so different and I really wanted to remember it.

But after the first few weeks I realized it was serious and if I didn't help someone or everyone, I would be living a lot of this year like this and

staying at home and not really doing anything. So my friend tried to start a musical and the money would go to help

coronavirus. This really didn't work out but it inspired me and I signed out an email to my friends telling out and

email to my friends telling them to share their talents at an online meeting

to help quote unquote turn the tide with talent.

It took a long time for my family and I to come out with that name, but it was really fun.

Anyway, so we, my mom helped me write this really official looking email and I sent it out to my friends. A lot of my

friends have responded and I'm really excited because it costs five dollars to

participate and seven dollars to

spectate and in the end it all goes to coronavirus to help feed families in my town

who aren't getting money due to their jobs closing and to help hospitals.

So I'm really excited because not only am I going to help in a way that's actually fun, but I get to be together with my friends in a time of separation.

I also think it's really interesting that being physically apart has actually helped a lot of people find

ways to feel closer to each other than they did before the outbreak. That's what

happened to Angela Francis over in London. She shared her story with Modern Love the Podcast. That's another

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