 Hi April how are you? I'm good how are you? I'm good. How have you guys been? How are you doing especially with all this virus stuff going around? You know we're trying to make the best of it we're getting along pretty good. Have they officially closed the schools for the rest of the year for you guys? Yes they just made that announcement a couple days ago. Yeah well okay um let's jump right into it if you don't mind. Why don't you start from the very beginning how did all this start and and how did it progress? So a little bit before winter break we knew that kindness week at KON school was coming up and he decided that he wanted to do a project for his school for kindness week. I started kindness week the first year I became a counselor at Franklin which was four years ago. Her goal was to help kids learn how to be kind, do acts of kindness and receive kindness. I came up with the idea to make keychains from my backpack. We had been talking about Richard Sherman and how he had just paid off school lunch debt and how cool we thought that was and so Kione overheard us talking about that and said well I can do that and we said you can do what? He said I can pay off my school's lunch debt and at that time we didn't know how much the debt was. She emailed me and said he had this idea that he wanted to pay off unpaid lunch debts and she wanted to know if I could find out how much would Franklin owed. He just continued to make keychains and then he was able to not only pay off the lunch debt here but make a fund so that there is money for future debt and then also we were able to give $500 to six other schools as well. It took off it went absolutely viral started with our local newspaper doing a story and then the television stations in town picked the news up. Initially we had sold little over 400 keychains and then it just went national. After the GMA3 segment that's when we started getting the two to three hundred a week. With the help of GoDaddy we were able to launch a website which is absolutely beautiful we just can't even say enough about it and that just made everything so much easier. Everything was going great lots and lots of orders were coming in it was wonderful and then all of a sudden the COVID pandemic started happening. We really had to shift the way that we were doing business because people were not ordering like they traditionally were. So what we decided was that with so many kids home with so many parents home looking for activities to do with their kids we have decided to start offering some do it yourself kids. So we still stamp the beads we still provide all of the materials but then we send them unfinished two people so that they are able to have a craft project for their kids to do. Each month we're going to pick a different place to donate to besides doing the student lunch day. I did my local children's hospital dorm becker and now it's my mom's choice this month. I think for us as parents the best thing about this project with Keoni has just been seeing him grow as an individual despite if he sees people being mean to each other. He comes back to the decision that being kind is always the way to go. For being the CEO of my own company feels so great because I'm being kind. My name is Keoni Ching and I'm the CEO of Keychains for Kindness.