A year after Robin Williams passed, his son Zak Williams began to carry on his father’s legacy of humanitarian service by visiting prisons and teaching inmates how to write resumes, look for jobs, manage finances and plan for retirement.

While many children of world famous actors tend to go into show business themselves, Zak Williams is a little different. His goal is focused on making a positive difference in the world by sharing financial education to prison inmates and at-risk communities.




Some of the least privileged and most forgotten Americans are the prisoners of San Quentin State Prison, and now Zak is teaching a weekly class to the inmates in order to help them be in a better place when they are finished serving their time, and to put love into a place where love is so hard to come by.

“I come from an entitled background where I could have not worked hard — just coasted for a chunk of my life, up to a point,” Williams said. “But I opted to take pride and joy in the work that I do and to establish accountability.”

Robin Williams was not only a loving and funny actor beloved by all, but he himself supported countless charities and wonderful programs around the world.

“I think he would have loved the program and loved participating; we know he’s there in their spirit,” his son Zak Williams said.

The classes consist of three modules:

1. Re-entry, which involves communication, interviewing skills and developing a resume.

2. Personal finance, which cultivates an understanding of one’s own personal finances, assets and liabilities.

3. Retirement, which focuses on investment strategies

The inmates of San Quentin are not only happy to be taking his class, but one of the inmates has taken a leadership role by helping to teach the class himself.

“It’s not hard to be compassionate,” Williams said.

Zak Williams’ compassionate heart has made a beautiful impact on the lives of those who are in need of love the most, and it’s highly likely that his efforts will direct a great and beautiful change in the hearts and minds of many of those in San Quentin’s prison.

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world,” ~Robin Williams <3

https://www.facebook.com/UnderstandingCompassion/photos/a.626035647536445.1073741829.624091487730861/1095448303928508/?type=3&theater

Always help someone, you might be the only one who does. Varun Pruthi travels the streets of India in search of those struggling to survive.

Often times he finds men and women between 60 to 100 years old working in physically difficult jobs such as rickshaw pulling. They work seven days a week to support themselves and their families, earning around $1.50 per day.




Varun sees them in their difficult situations, deeply moved and impressed by their ability to rise above their difficult life circumstances, and his compassionate heart brings him to give them money equal to two weeks worth of their work.

Helping dozens of individuals at a time was not enough for Varun, as he saw so many still left living in poverty. He wanted to inspire others to help the millions of people around the world living in poverty, so he began making videos of these truly beautiful moments of compassion. He uses the majority of the income from his videos to give to more and more people in need.

Varun often lets viewers know the location of the people in need that he finds, and asks his followers to come to them and help support them as well. So many lives have been touched and changed by the kind and compassionate heart of one man trying to make a difference in the world, and Varun has begun speaking at public schools to inspire young students to become future leaders of kindness.




Follow Varun Pruthi here on Youtube and here on Facebook.

Don’t be surprised if you find yourself crying during each and every one of Varun’s kindness videos. The act of helping someone who is struggling, of seeing their pain when no one else does and reaching out to them with love, is such a beautiful experience.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Let Varun’s beautiful heart inspire you to help someone in need that you see this week.

The famous and kind actor Bill Murray went to a bluegrass concert in Charleston, South Carolina, bought every remaining ticket, and handed them out to the people waiting in line.

Charleston is the hometown of Bill Murray, and the kindhearted celebrity decided to make every one of his neighbor’s nights a little bit better. Known for his random acts of kindness, and sometimes comedy, Bill shows us the beauty of compassion as someone who has attained all they need in life financially.




Adam Gloekler was standing in the lobby waiting to see the SteelDrivers perform, and he saw Bill walk right in and begin handing tickets out. “He went up to everyone in life waiting to buy tickets at the box office and gave them all tickets,” Gloeckler said.

“It’s something like this that you can bring a whole community together and start ‘Paying It Forward’ just like Bill did,” Gloeckler said.

“It is something that everyone who experienced it will never forget,” Gloeckler said as he took the picture of this act of kindness. “If only everyone in the world was like Bill Murray!”

If you see an opportunity in your community this week to share a little kindness, let Bill Murray inspire you to do so and help to make this world become the loving place it was meant to be.




“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” ~Mr. Rogers <3

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgVR14xgDQm/?taken-by=understanding_compassion