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Altruistic August Calendar

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Let's help others and spread a bit more kindness *

This Altruistic August Action Calendar has daily suggested actions to do throughout August 2018 to help you spread a bit more kindness in the world around.

You can download the calendar as an image file for sharing via social media or as a PDF file for printing out. Please pass it on to others and help to spread the word.

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** Download the actions to your calendar using this Google Calendar or iCalendar file.

There is also a special PDF version for those who want to print out in black & white.

And there are also different language versions of the calendar available too:

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"

~ Aesop

Thanks

This calendar follows on from our Kindness Calendar which was downloaded and used by nearly 2 million people in December 2017. Since then our monthly calendars have included Happy January, Friendly February, Mindful March, Active April, Meaningful May, Joyful June and Jump Back July. You can find the full set of calendars to date here.

Thanks to Peter Harper for coming up with the original calendar idea and also to the many other kind and talented people who helped contribute the ideas and inspiration, especially Vanessa King, Val Payne and Alex Nunn who have provided invaluable input.

Many thanks also to the generous volunteers who have translated the calendars into other languages, including Andrea Magnabosco (Italian), Windy Diakité (French), Vicenç Rul·lan (Spanish), Victòria Picó (Catalan), Tobias Polzin & Ingrid Hack (German), Ana Rute Costa (Portuguese), Natalya Kuznetsova (Russian), Sevdzhi Eubova (Bulgarian), Kate Rudenko (Ukranian), Eva Fekete (Hungarian), Janice Torkildsen (Chinese & Nepalese) and Dalibor Sever (Croatian).

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