- Get to know one neighbour you don’t
- Give a food parcel to a Homeless Talk seller
- If it’s raining, share your umbrella with someone
- Carry shopping parcels for an older person
- Double your tip for the petrol attendant
- Clear your cupboards and give old clothes to a charity or needy person
- Write a thank you letter to your parents, grandparents or children
- Give a special gift to a special person even if it is not a special occasion
- Give unused books to someone who needs them
- Cook a meal for a neighbour
- Keep soup packets and oranges in your car to give to beggars
- Clean up the area outside your neighbour’s house
- When you’re in need, allow others to help you
- Visit an elderly person and offer to do a chore for them
- Pay someone’s taxi fare
- Offer to wash someone’s car
- Thank people with a smile and wave who let you into traffic
- Let someone else into traffic
- Make a list with your neighbours of everyone’s email/cell numbers
- Set up window boxes at work and plant herbs, flowers & vegetables
- Take a plate of home-cooked food to your local police station
- Buy a car guard a take-away meal
- Invite a foreign family to your home for a meal
- Smile at everyone you meet today
- Offer to look after the child of a single parent for a day
- Ask a homeless person their name
- Offer to cut your neighbour’s grass/clean their pool
- Speak to one person standing in a queue with you
- Make contact with friends you have not spoken to for some time
- Offer to make coffee/tea for people at work
- Leave a note of encouragement on the desk of someone you work with
- Buy someone milk and bread
- Let someone take your parking space
- Give the security guard at your work or home some food
- Give up your seat on the bus/train
- Try to speak to someone in their own language even if it’s not your own
- Give a bottle of cold water to a hot and bothered taxi driver
- Buy shoes for a beggar
- Send food to Zimbabwe
- Take a plant to the new neighbors to welcome them
- Compliment someone on work done
- Donate some groceries to a needy family
- Find someone a job with no strings attached
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- Pack an extra sandwich in your child’s lunchbox for a child at school who does not bring lunch.
- offer to read to children at your local library once a month
- give food parcels to orphan-households
- visit the children’s ward at your nearest provincial hospital and read to and play with the child/ren who have no visitors
- Smile!!
- Look through your child’s toys and books and take those still in good condition and with which your child does not play to your local children’s home.
- Don’t give money to children begging at robots and intersections – give a sandwich or fruit instead
- Ask your nearest children’s home if you can help one hour a week with homework
- Give your child a hug – in fact several
- Pack a surprise picnic for your children one warm evening – even if you eat it in your own backyard.
- Make friends with your neighbor whose baby cries a lot – and ask her if you can rock the pram for her to give her a break and soothe the baby.
- Find something to compliment in your child every day
- Share a funny joke with a child and laugh together.
- Report crime and send anonymous tip-offs to Crime Line
- Call the police if you see someone in distress
- Send your domestic worker to local security meetings
- Report street lights that don’t work
- Volunteer to help coach a sports team or run a drama/art group at your local school
If you have committed to putting good values into action by doing a community project, please click here and let us know! This could be during the six week period 3 March to 7 April 2009 or at a later stage
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