Acts of Kindness - Giving Something Back

Something I have been working very hard to teach my children, is about acts of kindness. Yesterday, we sat down and talked about all the people who work hard to give something to our community. We talked about the importance of supporting and respecting those people for everything they bring to the area we live in.
The girls agreed that our fire service, police officers and hospital work very hard to keep us safe and well and decided that they wanted to give something back to them. Last night, after dropping Rebecca and Daisy at a Brownies/Guides crossover night, Ella and I set to work in the kitchen and made sixty cookies. We then divided them into three containers and attached a note to them.
This evening after school, the girls will be drawing pictures and we will be delivering their art work and the cookies to our Fire Station, Police Station and Emergency Department to say a huge "THANK YOU" to them for all of their hard work.
This is something that you don't hear about very often in the UK, but in the US, it is much more commonplace. As a mother who wants her children to grow up respecting the local community and those who serve in it, I would love to see more and more people doing this. If you don't want to make cookies, that's fine, if you don't want to hand over gift in person, that is also fine. Perhaps, you and your children could write a letter and draw some pictures and post them.
I would love to hear about how you have helped your children to give something back to those who serve in your local area, or your ideas about ways people can become involved.