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We are a peer-led organization of disabled survivors building kind community together to help each other in meeting our unmet needs. In kindness, we help meet the unmet needs of survivors of complex trauma and help victim-survivors exit extreme abuse and trafficking conditions. There exist survivors in our population who were deliberately born victims, still egressing active conditions, or otherwise lacking agency and left disabled from the abuse they have endured. ​​
By sharing kindness together, we are building community infrastructure, where disabled victim-survivors escaping harm can safely land in the most accessible and supported way. We are building community infrastructure for helping survivors access protection of their rights, privacy, safety; advocacy; and for helping remove obstacles blocking survivors’ participation in their own agency, clarity, life, choices, and cultivation of non-harming family. By helping survivors experience, generate, create, and join whatever social structures reflect their actual lived reality, we help each other to meet unmet needs with direct and actionable help.​​
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Kindness, simply put, is when a person sees another person’s unmet need– whether it’s a need for safety, companionship, hunger, wanting a person to eat with, recognition, accompaniment to a medical appointment, etc.–and takes action to meet it. Actual, concrete action. Without transaction, without cost, but just for the sake of being kind.
The purpose of a kindness-centered community is to help people come together to address their unmet needs while addressing the needs of others. We wish to do this in a way that is mutually protected and secure, and that values the agency of each member while building functional community.
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We are all kinds of people born into all kinds of conditions having lived all kinds of life experiences all seeking kindness in community. We are a peer-led support community of people seeking to be kind. We offer a peer-led support group format, group relational agreements, and community guidelines for people to use freely in starting their own support groups and building community together.
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Kindness helps people eliminate causes of invisibility, disconnection, and enmity, and benefits people coming from all conditions - abuse, neglect, loneliness, and even those coming from war, torture, and horror. To eliminate the obstructions to community and harmony, we want to include and make visible people from all conditions together, to just practice kindness.