Happy World Kindness Day! Check out our kind photos of kindness to humans -- and cats

An animal rescuer carries a cat to safety amid severe floods that hit Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in May 2024.Thousands of people — and animals — were affected in the wake of heavy rainfall and overflowing rivers.

Tuane Fernandes/The Everyday Projects/Everyday Brasil hide caption Editor's note: Today, November 13, is World Kindness Day!Kind-minded organizations from various countries came up with the idea and announced it on November 13, 1998.(And the date stuck.) The goal is kinda obvious — do something kind! It doesn't matter if it's a modest action.

One of the founding groups is the Small Kindness Movement of Japan.And no kind deed is too small to acknowledge.

One year, the Japanese movement gave an award to a cabbie who pulled over to clear trash bags off the road lest they cause an accident.According to a report in the Christian Science Monitor, the cab driver humbly said it was "no big deal."So on Friday, November 13, 2026, try a little kindness.

To inspire you, we've talked to folks whose lives were changed by kindness — and asked the photojournalists of The Everyday Projects, a global network, to submit pictures that capture a kind moment.Animal lovers will be happy to see photos of kindness toward animals as well as an image of a support donkey — a reminder that animals can be kind to us humans, too.

A woman in Madagascar fixes a girl's hair — a gesture of tenderness, connection and kindness.Henitsoa RAFALIA hide caption Erika Pozo helps her 12-year-old nephew, Josthyn Neira, with his math homework.

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