ladykatza

In the coming New Year, I present you with a challenge. I challenge you to participate. I challenge you to find a way to become more closely tied to the community in which you live or actively involved in. This is a challenge to myself as well, as I always feel that I would get satisfaction out of this. I want you to post ideas that you have for doing this.

Some of the ones I have thought of in the past:

Work at a Soup Kitchen
Read to children at a shelter
Read to kids at school (you can volunteer to be a “mystery reader”)
Help with a community clean-up project
Go to Town Meetings
If you are involved with a local religious organization, help them with charity work (just don’t preach to me)
Volunteer at a Home for the Elderly (some old people just like to talk)
Volunteer to help the local SPCA

Even if you do this only once the entire year, you can feel you did something more than you did the year before. If you already do these things, then good for you and keep it up! Giving money to a charity is never bad, but its hard to tell where its going or how its helping.

Current Mood: civic minded