Spread the kindness with VAS

Is your daily life filled with a sense of beauty and kindness? Do you want to capture every beautiful moment of kindness? Do you want to share all of these stories with other people? Please join the “Kindness Corner” Programme, organized for the first time at all VAS campuses. In this programme, VAS students have the opportunity to draw, take photographs, and write about the theme, “Spread The Kindness.” They will also perform their talents and creative perspectives as well as highlight acts of kindness in daily life and have chance to win valuable awards

I OBJECTIVE

• Create a relaxing and fun playground for the students in the new school year
• Encourage the students to develop their artistic skills
• Maintain the inspiration and passion for the students after the sharing of stories from VAS Talk’s speakers about the topic “Integrity takes courage”
• The beautiful works will be displayed at the “Kindness Corner” at each campus and will be posted on the VAS website at https://community.vas.edu.vn

II RULES

1/ Participants

All VAS primary and secondary students

2/ Topic

 “Spread the Kindness”. Capture acts of kindness in life through drawing, photographing, and writing activities.

Some suggestions for the content:

• Helping others in daily life (helping old people to go across the streets, helping your friends when they fall, keep the environment clean, etc.)
• Showing sincerity and kindness to others (comforting your friends when they are upset, giving compliments, sharing a positive message with someone…)
• Doing charity projects (giving free meals to the poor, meeting the elderly in nursing homes, visiting children in orphanages, building new classrooms in remote areas…)

3/ General rules

• Each student may participate by submitting unlimited entries to the organizer
• The content must be linked to the theme, conveying the key message and feelings of kindness.
• The participant has to title their work and provide basic personal information (name, date of birth, class)
• Participant agree to grant the organizer all rights to share their work across VAS media, such as our website, Facebook page, newsletter, VAS calendar, or via mass media.
• The participant has to ensure the copyright of their own drawings, photos and writings. The works should be originals which have not been used for any other contests.

4/ Specific rules for each activity

Drawings	Photos	Writings
Free drawing, hand drawing, with any colours, materials and paper sizes.	- Photos must be in digital format (.jpeg or .jpg) with a resolution of 300dpi, the minimum size is 1Mb. - Photos, which are not bordered, are either in color or in black and white - Photos can be taken by any types of cameras - Photos are not excessively edited with editing software	- Writing prose, poetry, notes, and letters, etc. -  Writings may not exceed 400 words - Writing must be in either Vietnamese or English

III Timeline and awards

There are two competition rounds – the elimination round and the final round. The elimination round is divided into 3 batches, with each batch lasting 2 months beginning in September 2018. The result of each batch will be announced after 10 days from the day each batch ends.