#kindnessiscool Video Contest Gold Winner James and His Wife and Partner at NYC Times Square, Mar.28th, 2025

Hi, I'm James H. White, and I am the Gold Award winner. It's very humbling. I am a singer-songwriter, I'm a filmmaker, and I'm also a Rotarian. I come from the Kindness Satellite Club of Minisink Valley, and a big part of being a Rotarian is service above self. And when Hurricane Helene hit the Southeast, it was obviously this massive disaster. And what I saw was this amazing response from the military and veteran community. It was truly service above self, and it was so touching that I actually was moved to tears. I started writing a song because I thought their effort was, the world needed to know about this effort, and I was so touched by what they were doing. So I wrote this song, and I wrote it with my co-writing partner, David English. And afterwards, I thought this could be a nice story, add the story of the relief effort and the song, I thought could really embody the values of the Kindness is Cool campaign. And kindness is such an important thing. There's so much in that word. There's compassion, there's tolerance, there's service above self, there's you have to be honest and true to yourself, and think of others first. There's all these virtues embodied in that simple word, kindness. And I think it's so amazing what Ganjin World is doing, trying to use their digital platform to promote something that everybody in the world needs. We all need kindness. We need to be kind to ourselves, we need to be kind to our neighbors. And that's really what I saw in this Hurricane Helene relief effort. I saw these amazing veterans and military community risking their lives to help those in need. And I found it so touching. What we actually want to do is, we want to take this initial $10,000 seed capital, and we want to use it to do a bigger campaign, a fundraising campaign for aerial recovery, and for its trusted partners, so that they can continue doing these amazing selfless acts of kindness. And really start, continue to save lives, and do everything that they do every day. Jeremy, the CEO, he was just down in South Carolina yesterday, dropping off chainsaws, and dropping off supplies for the fires that are happening there. Aerial recovery is nonstop. He's on a mission this week, he's doing relief efforts the next week. It's unbelievable. So whatever we can do to help fundraise for their organization, that's what we want to do with the cash. That's what we want to do with the cash pot. We'll do the other bit first. Okay. Hello, I'm Victoria. This is James. I'm the wife of James, and I'm so happy and privileged to have been on the song, and to be able to sing with my husband. And I'm so over the moon for him, that he won the competition. I'm really proud of him, and I think it just shows his huge heart, that he could have chosen to take the money from the prize, but instead he wants to give back, and I think that's what kindness is all about. So I think he's a great winner for you guys, and it's great what you're doing on Ganjing World. Spreading kindness. The world needs more kindness, but kindness is definitely core. So, yeah. And she's very kind, so very easy to work with. Most of the time. All right, guys.