6 Ways to Get Involved in Your Community
4. Campaign online
If you are one of those who have expertise with creating websites and internet marketing, you can go the extra yard trying to reach out to a wider audience online. Whether it is generating awareness about endangered species or attracting attention to social causes, a lot can be achieved online, especially using social media campaigns on Facebook and Twitter. Awareness about diseases and first aid information can also been disseminated through mails and blogs.
5. Organize fundraiser events
You can organize fundraiser events with other like-minded people in your neighborhood. This will help you accomplish two things. Firstly, you will be able to network with those who believe in a similar cause. Secondly, it will let you raise funds that can be donated to NGOs doing impressive work in the same field. Fundraiser events also highlight the need for citizens to give back to society. It is a great way of setting an example, and putting your point across. These events can be for the benefit of orphans, mentally retarded children or even senior citizens, who otherwise do not get much attention from society. You can even have kids put up a show to display their talent, touching the hearts of many and winning support for their future.
6. Start orphanages and old age homes
If there are orphanages and old age homes in your neighborhood, there is nothing like it. If there isn’t, you can get your act together to start one yourself, taking the help of friends or family members. Plenty of abandoned senior citizens need attention more than anything else at that juncture of their life. Orphanages too are usually under-staffed and under-resourced. You can offer your services in many ways, whether it is by reaching out to others for help, teaching during weekends, getting support to teach vocational skills to kids so they can become independent. You can even make efforts to rehabilitate them by contacting people who are looking to adopt them.
These are just some of the ways you can get involved in your community. You may yourself come up with better ideas. So, go ahead and make the difference!
