Volunteering
Volunteers are members of the community who freely give-up a few hours of their time every week to help a charity or club in their area in the general activities that they are doing to help them improve civic life.
Volunteers are members of the community who freely give-up a few hours of their time every week to help a charity or club in their area in the general activities that they are doing to help them improve civic life.
Here are the first sixteen of the fifty ways in which you can become a more active citizen!
1. Assist your local Youth Club with activities being organised.
2. Nominate someone for the JCI Outstanding Young Person competition.
3. Contact your local school to see if they need assistance running a project.
4. Pay a visit to a local elderly person and ask is there anything you can do for them.
5. Join your local resident's association.
6. Start a Neighbourhood Watch programme.
7. Visit senior citizens at a nursing home.
8. Help cook and/or serve a meal at a homeless shelter.
9. Walk dogs for your local animal shelter.
10. Volunteer on a helpline.
11. Teach at an adult literacy centre.
12. Participate in a marathon for your favourite charity.
13. Volunteer for a sports club.
14. Register your details on the Volunteer.ie Website and start volunteering.
15. Contact your local branch of Meals on Wheels and offer to help.
16. Join your local Junior Chamber International (JCI) Branch.
2. Nominate someone for the JCI Outstanding Young Person competition.
3. Contact your local school to see if they need assistance running a project.
4. Pay a visit to a local elderly person and ask is there anything you can do for them.
5. Join your local resident's association.
6. Start a Neighbourhood Watch programme.
7. Visit senior citizens at a nursing home.
8. Help cook and/or serve a meal at a homeless shelter.
9. Walk dogs for your local animal shelter.
10. Volunteer on a helpline.
11. Teach at an adult literacy centre.
12. Participate in a marathon for your favourite charity.
13. Volunteer for a sports club.
14. Register your details on the Volunteer.ie Website and start volunteering.
15. Contact your local branch of Meals on Wheels and offer to help.
16. Join your local Junior Chamber International (JCI) Branch.
Environment
Everyone is not lucky like me and able to live in the Internet so if we don’t start looking after our environment there will be no where for all the little citizens of the future to live. If you want to help our environment and start to become a more active citizen here are some of things you can do:
Everyone is not lucky like me and able to live in the Internet so if we don’t start looking after our environment there will be no where for all the little citizens of the future to live. If you want to help our environment and start to become a more active citizen here are some of things you can do:
1. Donate unwanted clothing and/or toys to a local charity shop.
2. Get a green and a brown bin and set up a recycling system for your home.
3. Donate unwanted books to your local library.
4. Clean up rubbish along a river, beach, or in a park.
5. Create a habitat for wildlife in your garden.
6. Start a local group that will plant trees in your locality.
7. Ask your local Tidy Towns Committee if they need assistance.
8. Distribute "pooper scoopers" door to door in your area.
9. Write a letter to your local politician asking them for their environmental policies and suggest some things that they could be doing.
10. Turn the heating down by one degree in your house.
11. Wash your clothes at 40 degrees and use environmentally friendly cleaners.
12. Where possible buy your groceries from local suppliers and farmer's markets.
2. Get a green and a brown bin and set up a recycling system for your home.
3. Donate unwanted books to your local library.
4. Clean up rubbish along a river, beach, or in a park.
5. Create a habitat for wildlife in your garden.
6. Start a local group that will plant trees in your locality.
7. Ask your local Tidy Towns Committee if they need assistance.
8. Distribute "pooper scoopers" door to door in your area.
9. Write a letter to your local politician asking them for their environmental policies and suggest some things that they could be doing.
10. Turn the heating down by one degree in your house.
11. Wash your clothes at 40 degrees and use environmentally friendly cleaners.
12. Where possible buy your groceries from local suppliers and farmer's markets.
Civic
If you decide to pledge to do one of the actions from the Civic list it will not be long before you have a greater feeling of belonging in your local region.
From my experience it is hard to match the feeling you have after you have invested some of your precious time in making your area better. Here are some suggestions of things that you can do to help your communtiy.
1. Give up your seat for elderly or disabled people when travelling on public transport.
2. Write to the Minister for Foreign Affairs about a humanitarian crisis, ask him what Ireland is doing to help and suggest what we could also be doing.
3. Become active in your local political party.
4. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper about an issue you care about.
5. Organise a public issues forum for your community.
6. Vote in all local and national elections.
7. Take a friend to the polling booth to vote who would not vote otherwise.
8. Give blood.
9. Help a blind person cross the road.
10. Join the Garda reserves / Reserve Defence Force / St John’s ambulance.
11. Pledge to help Active Alfie!
2. Write to the Minister for Foreign Affairs about a humanitarian crisis, ask him what Ireland is doing to help and suggest what we could also be doing.
3. Become active in your local political party.
4. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper about an issue you care about.
5. Organise a public issues forum for your community.
6. Vote in all local and national elections.
7. Take a friend to the polling booth to vote who would not vote otherwise.
8. Give blood.
9. Help a blind person cross the road.
10. Join the Garda reserves / Reserve Defence Force / St John’s ambulance.
11. Pledge to help Active Alfie!
Community Spirit
Community spirit is the key to a happy and functioning community area. Some would say that if your area has good community spirit everything in that community will run like a well oiled machine. People smile at each other walking down the street and they are happy to do selfless acts for their fellow citizens.
Community spirit is the key to a happy and functioning community area. Some would say that if your area has good community spirit everything in that community will run like a well oiled machine. People smile at each other walking down the street and they are happy to do selfless acts for their fellow citizens.
If you want to improve the community spirit in your area here are some of the things that you can do!!!
1. Clean graffiti off your local community buildings.
2. Plant flowers in public areas that could use some colour.
3. Manage one of your local sports teams.
4. Start a youth club in your area.
5. Look after a neighbour’s pet while they are on holiday.
6. Mentor a young person and help give them confidence in themselves.
7. Help in developing tourism in your locality.
8. Organise a social event in your area to get to know your neighbour.
9. Organise a neighbourhood watch.
10. If you see someone doing something good for the community be sure to thank them for doing some great work.
11. Smile and have a nice word when you meet people on the street and everyone will smile back at you.
2. Plant flowers in public areas that could use some colour.
3. Manage one of your local sports teams.
4. Start a youth club in your area.
5. Look after a neighbour’s pet while they are on holiday.
6. Mentor a young person and help give them confidence in themselves.
7. Help in developing tourism in your locality.
8. Organise a social event in your area to get to know your neighbour.
9. Organise a neighbourhood watch.
10. If you see someone doing something good for the community be sure to thank them for doing some great work.
11. Smile and have a nice word when you meet people on the street and everyone will smile back at you.
Source : www.fifty-ways.com
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