$100 to help first-graders learn about kindness

Today's recipient of a $100 bill through the Believe Project is Kate Gilhooly of Rosemont. Here is an excerpt of her story:

"During December, the first-grade students at Rosemont School are focusing on how to be kind to others. Each day students make or do something to secretly perform Random Acts of Kindness.

"A calendar of events includes writing letters to soldiers overseas, donating canned food for a local shelter, collecting tabs for the Ronald McDonald House, making decorations for the senior center and secretly sharing candy with staff and students.

"If the first-grade students were to receive $100 from the Believe Project, they would be able to select and purchase books to be placed in our new Free Little Library to share with others in their community.

"The school has plans to install four Free Little Libraries around town and a $100 donation would be a wonderful way for the students to do their part to help fill them up."

• The Believe Project is awarding at least $100 each day in December to people with good ideas for how to use the money to do a good deed for someone else.