Mile for a smile
Nowra Changemakers - Term 2, 2023
During Mental Health May 2023, Sonder Youth’s Nowra Changemakers created a region-wide scavenger hunt for 10 red boxes. The boxes included positive affirmation stickers, reflective wellbeing questions, and encouraged the finder to leave a positive not for others.
In order for the participant to find the code for the box and get a sticker they had to answer a question from the QR code on the box, the questions include;
What are you proud of yourself for?
What act of kindness from a stranger will you never forget?
What do you do for yourself to make yourself feel better?
All questions were aimed to get the participants to reflect on the positive aspects of their wellbeing. Hundreds of people took part throughout the month!
This project was important to the changemakers because they wanted to encourage young people to improve their wellbeing by getting their friends and community outside.
Since 2023, Mile 4 a Smile has been run four separate times by different changemaker groups with over 800 people engaging in the project so far!