GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Men who benefit from a nonprofit program that helps them find housing and a job are giving back to the Grand Rapids community by buying people coffee in honor of Random Acts of Kindness Day.
The day focused on generosity is Monday, Feb. 17, but 10 men in Guiding Light’s Back to Work program are honoring it on Saturday. Starting at 9 a.m they will walk from Guiding Light to the Biggby on Wealthy Street and buy people one cup of regular coffee until the $200 they have pooled together runs out.
“We want to learn how to give something back to somebody else—pay it forward basically,” said the event organizer Dwight Lee, a peer counselor with Guiding Light.
The money is from the participant’s pockets and funds from Guiding Light. Many of the men in the program are in significant debt, but after they complete it, their debt is erased and they have an average savings of $1,906, according to Guiding Light.
