The beginning of October commonly signals fall and Halloween, but as the air becomes chillier a less known holiday also occurs. October is National Global Diversity Month and Ayala’s Find Kind club plans to make everyone aware.

Find Kind is a nationwide organization, founded by Ayala alumni, Gabriella Torres. Find Kind’s goal is to spread kindness on and off school campuses. The club promotes student activism and each month has a special event pertaining to their theme of the month. This October the theme is Global Diversity Month.

Global Diversity Month aims to not only remind others about the numerous cultures and backgrounds around the world, but celebrate and embrace these differences. It aims to highlight the positive impacts and benefits of having a diverse community working together while using individual experiences to enrich interactions. The intention of this month is to bring various cultures, customs, and communities together.

“It’s about recognizing each and every person’s unique backgrounds and appreciating it,” Find Kind’s Secretary Hailey Placé (11) said. “Which is what Find Kind aims to promote: everyone is different and appreciating that is what brings people together.”

This month hopes to emit pride within students and make Ayala more welcoming by acknowledging cultures.

“I hope that the students at Ayala can feel that their culture is being recognized,” Find Kind’s Media Commissioner Ella Chang (9) said. 

Many people on campus identify strongly with their backgrounds. At Ayala, some students are mixed and all students are also American, which means that students themselves are diverse. All of these cultures that students have embraced bring pleasure and comfort.

“I am mixed, half Taiwanese and half Portuguese, so growing up I was taught many cultural traditions from both sides that are very different from each other,” Placé said. “Which I am very grateful for because I have a lot of pride for my ethnicity and who I am.” 

This month helps celebrate and embrace biracial students or any other students with mixed cultures. Global Diversity Month helps showcase students who identify with several ethnicities and embraces all parts of a student’s heritage. It is important to remember these differences and be respectful of all students’ cultures and traditions to make Ayala a better learning community for all.

“I am most excited about this theme because I come from a very diverse background with many different nationalities,” Find Kind member Alice Diep (9) said. “It’s important to bring this theme to Ayala because it helps the students learn and contribute to the Ayala’s diversity.”

This month, Find Kind is planning to work together with culture clubs on campus as well as celebrating the cultures between the members of the club.

“I am really excited about possible collaborations with different clubs such as Spanish or Chinese club on activities to bring awareness to diversity on campus,” Chang said.

More information throughout October about Global Diversity Month can found at Find Kind’s bi-monthly meetings in room D138 and on their Instagram account: @ahsfindkind.

Overall, Find Kind’s goal is to point out just how amazing Ayala is because of the numerous culture groups that it consists of. The club intends to further spread their message of kindness, diversity, equity, and inclusion through this month’s theme. 

“I’m hoping that we will be able to promote the message on how amazing it is to have a diverse group of individuals on campus and in our communities,” Placé said. “We should definitely appreciate and learn about one another, because it really is so cool.”