Samaritan Works
Launching 4th Qtr 2025
1st Hope will collaborate with private and public schools to institute the Samaritan Works program. Students and teachers will use mobile phones and the “Samaritan Works” app to issue citations and award persons for doing Works for the good of their communities. Examples of Works include valor both physical or moral, and acts of kindness such as repairs, planting trees, picking up trash, etc. Samaritan Works recognizes its reporters and Samaritans by awarding them with a citation certificate and Valiants, which they can redeem eGift cards for services and products provided by merchants.
WHY SAMARITAN WORKS
Too often, negative forces take center stage and get the most publicity. People lose hope when the negative takes center stage over the positive. We are being bombarded with negativity 70% of news channels open their coverage with a crime-related story! Almost 90% of all news media is negative! 91% of movies and 85% of video games contain violence! A staggering 99.5% of popular music refers to violence! A recent YouGov U.S. survey asked, “do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?” Only 6% of Americans responded that the world is getting better! The world and its youth have become caught up in a self-fulfilling prophecy, a feedback loop of negativity! Despite the media focus on negativity, the Bible teaches us that we can overcome evil with good!
FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE
We propose to promote the positive and foster hope in our citizens by focusing on the “good” in our communities. The Good Book tells us that hope is the “anchor of the soul.” Hope is a powerful force - a single act or phrase, even an image, can give us hope, inspire us to action, and lift the spirits of millions. Our communities will thrive on the positive… we need hope and Samaritan heroes.
BRINGING KINDNESS AND VALOR TO SCALE
It’s said that human beings can change the world through just one random act of kindness at a time. A series of studies in neuroscience at Stanford University have found that kindness is ‘contagious’ and that if you see an act of kindness or generosity, you are likely to spread it. One good deed will, in turn, inspire another.
Samaritan Works aims to help bring works of valor and kindness to scale within our communities.
