What is you're way you would improve the world?

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Or at least your local community?

I have seen cute little free libraries and honesty boxes where people sell eggs and fruit and veg, someone has put out their spare plant pots in their garden for passers by to take.
There is a group of litter pickers, a speaker group of tree planters, someone got a few benches and planters put up on a spare piece of grass and it's all lovely things that make the local community a better place.

reading the school supply page, wouldn't a good idea for the summer holidays be to gift the teachers school supplies instead of flowers and chocolates and wine?

oh I have also seen people bringing their old books to town centers, leaving them on benches with a note saying 'please take'. I just think it's lovely.

Or even the lovely women on busses or in shop lines who see a struggling mother with a child and instead of berating them, they either share a few kind words or reach into their bag with a small wrapped sweet for the child to calm th down.
Once on a bus my children were crying for a drink and someone went rooting in their shopping bags and gave my children drinks from a multipack! Those people really did improve the world!

So have you? or How would you improve the world?

oh no ending war, killing putin or Johnson crap. just nice small scale stuff that's nice to do

I love this thread 😃 just try and do something kind for someone everyday, doesn’t have to be massive, write a glowing review for a small business, offer to help someone with heavy luggage on the train etc

Someone paid a £12 shop for my dad on Christmas Eve. Made his day 😊😊

• paying for people's small shops
• giving away something you don't use to someone you know would really like it - more specific than just charity shop
• sending an email to a colleague to thank them for advice and help. Someone did this for me once and it made me feel so appreciated when I was very low. I think random texts/emails and calls in general are all worthwhile.

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- paying for people's small shops

• giving away something you don't use to someone you know would really like it - more specific than just charity shop
• sending an email to a colleague to thank them for advice and help. Someone did this for me once and it made me feel so appreciated when I was very low. I think random texts/emails and calls in general are all worthwhile.

Ah I'm very similar to you, I like to pay for old people's small shops, give things away and I like to email people's manager's and bosses when a job is well done. I'd say I also like to let cars out waiting who have clearly been waiting ages for someone to let them out. I like seeing them smile and wave with relief.

I'm a tad anti social to be very hands on with direct community stuff but I'm interested.in this thread to get ideas.

Set up community centres with cafe areas, games, books and sports/recreation areas open to all from elderly to teenagers.

These community ideas are nice

On a larger scale though, I’d try and rebalance the lack of equality in a few areas:

• reduce footballers wages and the mega mega rich who don’t need it
• increase the public sector wages, especially in those areas like teachers, nurses, firefighters etc
• make it much easier and much more attractive to go in to politics to allow for more competition of a wider range of people from different backgrounds through additional political parties

If you're busy and someone who might be lonely/ needing a chat phones or stops to talk, actually try to extend, rather than end, the conversation - the busyness can wait.

Writing a review
what a good idea I never thought of that, and I read them all the time for shops and places

I always get let to cross the road with my pram, every single day. In fact, I have only had to wait to cross a few times in the 9 years since I first had a child. I always feel so happy and it doesn't seem that much to do, only a few seconds, but it just makes me so happy to know that the local scrapman, post man, doctor, office workers, school run mums and dads, police officers and everyone else all want me and my children to be able to cross a busy road safely. Both sides always stop within 2 seconds. I see other mums getting let across and it's on the way to school so the busiest time of day.
i sound soppy but it makes me feel so, hopeful of humanity, everyone will put themselves put a bit to make sure children and babies are safe.

Stopping to let pedestrians cross the road especially when it's raining. It'll take just 2 seconds, it won't make you late!

I would also like to set up a community centre! So people in the area I live can get to know each other and support each other and come up with ideas about what people would like to improve our community... and work on plans to move the ideas forward. There's actually nothing that much wrong with where I live, it's just a fairly new, high density, rapidly expanding place....with not much at all to link local residents together.

Donating to food banks.

id get rid of politicians

Wealth distribution: tax the rich

Use the money to rebuild our social infrastructure

More creches in workplaces. I think this would help a lot of mothers get back into work.