Together, our small acts create big change—watch & act today
Giving Tuesday is here—and with it, a reminder of something profound: real change begins with small acts. At KAIROS, we see these acts every day —a conversation that interrupts injustice, a community gathering that builds resolve, a gesture of welcome that opens a path to safety.
🎥 Watch this short video from Tania Principe, KAIROS Executive Director — then make your small act count towards big change.
If this work inspires you, consider your own small act: a donation. Whether it’s $25, $50 or $100, your gift empowers Indigenous rights, women peacebuilders, ecological and migrant justice by turning small acts into collective power especially now, as funding shrinks and needs grow.
Video Transcript
Hello friends,
I’m Tania Principe, Executive Director at KAIROS.
Today is Giving Tuesday, and it lands in the heart of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. And both remind us of one simple truth: small acts matter.
Small acts of courage.
Small acts of solidarity.
Small acts that interrupt systems designed to cause harm.
This year, these acts feel even more urgent. Around the world and here in Canada governments are rolling back gender-equality commitments, cutting aid, reducing climate financing, and stepping away from policies like the Feminist International Assistance Policy. When financing for equality weakens, when rights are rolled back, gender-based violence rises. This is systemic violence, and it shapes the safety and futures of women, girls, Two Spirit, gender-diverse and racialized communities every day.
And yet in the face of this people continue to act.
In the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, one circle at a time, truth-telling rebuilds relationships and challenges colonial harm.
In our Women, Peace and Security programs, women peacebuilders in Colombia, South Sudan, the DRC, Palestine and here on Turtle Island share a meal, host a community meeting, create spaces for healing. These acts open pathways to climate resilience, economic independence and peace.
In ecological justice, Indigenous women, youth and frontline communities protect water and land daily, resisting extractive systems and the global erosion of climate financing.
And in migrant justice, small acts of welcome, accompanying, advocating, showing up, counter systems that exclude and marginalize.
Across every pillar, these small acts create collective power.
They widen safety. They strengthen movements. They make change possible.
So today, if this work moves you, if you believe in the power of small acts to disrupt systemic violence,
I invite you to join us with your own small act, your donation. Whether it’s $25, $50, or $100, your gift supports truth-telling, peacebuilding, climate justice, migrant justice and global solidarity. It strengthens the communities most impacted by systemic violence. And it pushes back against the erosion of aid and equality financing.
Your small act matters. Your solidarity matters. And together, our collective movement grows stronger. Thank you for your generosity and for every small act that makes this work possible.
