#KindnessIsCool Award Ceremony Mar 8, 2024-GanJingWorld at NY Times Square 乾淨世界時代廣場頒獎儀式

Hi, I'm Ben Hedges, I am a Kindness is Cool ambassador for Ganjing World, and today we are conducting the prize ceremony for the Kindness is Cool competition promotion that we've been running for the past few months. And we have some winners who filmed excellent videos displaying acts of kindness who we are going to be presenting checks to right here in Times Square in New York. Ganjing World is a family-friendly social media platform, in fact, it is the fastest growing family-friendly social media platform on the internet. It is available in 11 languages, and we have just had the Kindness is Cool competition where we invited users to film videos that displayed acts of kindness, and we received 10,000 entries, and from those 10,000, 23 were particularly outstanding, and we narrowed those 23 down to several that we have awarded cash prizes for. The top prize is $10,000. Ladies and gentlemen, we are here in Times Square, New York to present the Kindness is Cool awards, and I have with me Srafada Noor of the Millennium TV. He is the CEO and President of Millennium TV here in New York. Thanks for being with us today. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. And the first award that we are going to present is to Little Lotus Academy, and it is a check for $500 for their video celebrating kindness. So do you guys want to come up this way? Let's just move a little bit to the side, and we'll have them all come up this way. Come past. Well done, kids. That's it. Your teacher want to accept the check on behalf of Little Lotus Academy. Do you want to hold it? Yeah. There you go. All right, and let's take a photo. Okay, and then in addition to the check, we also have the certificate. So we'll have to take that too. Okay, so we are here for the second award, and that goes to Dream Journey. Do you guys want to come up to accept the award? How many people have we got? One, two, three, four, five. Cool. Congratulations, guys. So here is your check. Do you want to take it? That's for you. There you go. And we also have the certificate as well. Do you want to take that? And would you guys like to say a few words? Just introduce the video that you made and what's important about it. Do you want to hold that? And you can just look at me while you talk. Your entry into the competition, yeah. Just tell us a little bit about it or anything that you feel is important. I'm very happy to receive this award. Thank you, Ganging World, and thank you all for supporting our work. And we will do our best to continue making better work. And how do you feel to have won a prize in the competition? It's so exciting, and I'm very happy to receive this award. Awesome. Well, congratulations, guys. And we hope to see more videos. Thank you. Let's take a picture together so we can look at all of these cameras. We are here with another of our $500 prize winners, the Star Academy for the Gifted and Talented. They've come down from Boston for this award, right? Okay. Well, congratulations, you guys. We have Caleb, Assistant Manager from the U.S. Veterans Office here in New York City, to present the award. So if you want to come over and... All right, you guys can take your check, okay? Don't be shy, because that is for you, that $500 check. And we also have this one for Star Academy. There you go. And would you guys like to tell us a little bit about the video you made and why it's important to you? Do you want to come over? That's awesome. Thank you so much. All right, so we are here with our third place winner, Clearview Kidsland, for their video, Celebrating Kindness. And they're getting a check for $1,000. And we have Caleb from the U.S. Veterans Center here in New York to present the check for them. So here you go, guys. A big well done. And we also have the certificate as well. And do you want to tell us a little bit... Why don't you tell us a little bit about the video you made and everything behind it? You know, an opportunity to make a movie like this can only come from this moment. I was asked to get involved. I did sound for the project. So in the very beginning, I had to put microphones on two kids. And just that interaction, just that moment with them, with their innocence and curiosity, I knew it was going to be special. And standing back and watching Dennis and Andre direct, the feeling of the movie was the feeling of producing it. It's quite wonderful. That's cool. And how does it feel to have won a prize? It's the icing on the cake. It's awesome, guys. Cool. Did you want to say something? Yeah. Congratulations. The biggest form of art, which is the film and everything. It's an uncompleted transform. Kindness. Showing to everybody that you want gold, you want determination. That's what the Manhattan Vet Center is all about. Like I said previously, you have to keep the engine running, you have to keep the train moving, kindness. Without it, honestly, I find things to be pretty much impossible. That's awesome. Well, once again, congratulations, guys. And let's just look at the cameras for a few photos. I think... Any more? Okay, we'll do a wave as well. Final wave. I'm here with Liana Stevenson, the director of the Manhattan Veteran Center. We're going to be presenting, first of all, the second prize. Are you happy to be here? Yeah, man. We're happy to be here to share the prize. That's awesome. That's what we want. We're going to welcome New Century Films. If you guys want to all come up this way and just come across the other side. Cool. Liana is going to present the check for you guys. We'll wait until you all come over. Okay, alright. So we're going to present the check so you can all take the... There we go. Would you like to say a few words? It doesn't matter. It's very casual. I just want to say congratulations to the Nanjing winners. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication and congratulations again. Thank you. This is the Best Team Award. I think this is also a very special milestone for New Century Films. And we are very determined in our hearts. As long as we have this sense of kindness and gratitude, our society and our lives will definitely become better. So in the future, we will continue to create more films that can move people's hearts. We also hope to share our kind and cool ideas with more friends. Thank you. It's such an honor for us to be here at the Film Square to present the Best Team Award to New Century Films with all of us at New Century Films. New Century Films is one of the crucial messages for all of us. So New Century Films is a community non-profit New Century Films is a non-profit organization based on the true compassion of parents. And we hope the messages that the past and the present will give the world more hope in the future. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. Congratulations. And let's look at the camera for a photo. Okay guys, we are here for the final, the top prize. We have a $10,000 check I have here with me, Leanna Stevenson who is the Director of the Manhattan Center for Veterans Affairs here in New York City. And we are going to welcome Sam Coggin and his family. Come up here Sam, who is our top prize winner. Hey guys. So alright, let's give you the check. So that is for you. And Sam, first of all, I know you wanted to wish him congratulations, so why don't you say a few words first, Leanna. I have it all out, but I'm off the tangent here. I just want to say congratulations to the winner of the Gandhi Award of Kindness Award in the event here in Times Square. In today's troubled world, promoting kindness is crucial and a very powerful antidote. So kindness is characterized by compassion, empathy and the potential to heal division and foster unity amongst individuals. It fosters empathy and understanding, encouragement, recognition for the struggles faced by disabled veterans and first responders needing greater support and tailored resources for their unique needs. Thank you so much for being here. And okay, so obviously there's a little bit of a connection here because you're from the Veterans Center and the video you made was about obviously injured veterans and a gym that, well, why don't you tell because you're going to explain it better than me. So give us a little bit of a description. What is Dr. Training Foundation? Just tell us basically about the foundation in your video and the whole story and you can hold that. So Dr. Training Foundation was made by Dave Kogora who is a retired NFL player and it's basically a gym for people that have disabilities people in the army and anyone with disabilities and it's like a really, really great place really happy, really beautiful really good space And it's a charity, right? It is a charity. It's completely non-profit. It's completely non-profit. And what made you want to make the video? Well, I think what Dave was doing was really, really, really cool. So whenever I was reading through the actual awards I saw Dr. Training Foundation so I had to do that one. That's cool. So in addition to the check we have the certificate for you. So you can grab that. And your dad is here accepting the other certificate on behalf of the Adaptive Training Foundation. Did you want to say a few words about that? We can hold that. The things that the Adaptive Training Foundation is doing in Dallas it's pretty likely for you to go to that facility and have adaptive training equipment for people who are looking for this. It's one of the most encouraging things to me. It was a no-brainer for Sam to highlight that in terms of what they're doing and the kindness is cool tag. It just makes perfect sense for the Adaptive Training Foundation. So we're honored that we get to be here representing them. Cool. Well, thank you so much guys and let's just take a few photos now. So let's, first in the middle. Okay, right here. Right here. And then we'll do a bit of a wave for the video cameras as well. And shall we do it one more time? Kindness is cool, okay? One, two, three, kindness is cool!