Dear Children,
- Make sure your parents don’t employ children under 14
- Use cloth or jute bags for shopping, say no to plastic
- Do not spit or throw chocolate wrappers ect on the pavement.
- Help plant trees and flowers in your area; or at a park near your home
- Adopt a local park, stream or beach, and clean it up
- Leave the wild animals, wildflowers, and insects where they belong to – with the nature
- Adopt a "grand friend", write letters and visit them
- Start a compost pit
- Do not drive before 18 or the driving age
- Drive responsibly and obey traffic rules
- On birthdays and auspicious occasions like marriages, students can ask parents, friends and grand-parents to make a donation to a special organization. Students can do the same for other people's birthdays
- Save peelings from fruits and vegetables for a compost pile
- Purchase Charity Greeting cards
- Motivate elders to vote
- Motivate elders in your family to Donate Blood and pledge their organs
- Don't leave water running. For example, turn off water while brushing your teeth. By wasting less water, we leave more water, try and adopt methods of rainwater harvesting
- Hold a weekend car-wash to raise money or make yourself (and friends) available to run errands, do yard work, or walk dogs. Make up fliers to advertise your services and explain where the money will go that is earned
- Organize fetes in your school where you can ask everyone to bring things from home to sell. You can donate the money for a cause
- Write a letter to the editor about an issue you care about
- Spay or neuter your dog or cat, which stops them from having babies. There are already millions of dogs and cats without homes
- Tell your parents if you see children or adults hurting an animal
- Your time helping the Initiatives / Voluntary organisations in their day-to-day activities Helping such Initiatives / Voluntary organisations in fund raising / resource mobilization
- Offer to help an elderly neighbour. Ask if you can help walk their dog, change kitty litter, and/or clean a birdcage
- Use rechargeable batteries
- Give away unwanted clothes and toys to those who can use them
- Have a sale of stuff that you don’t need and donate the money for a cause
- Avoid buying products that are dangerous to the environment
- Organize a clean-up day near your school
- Make "I Care Kits." Collect personal care items such as toothbrushes, combs, brushes, shampoo, lotions, soap, deodorant etc. Organize the items and distribute to agencies with families in need
- Organize groups to make cards for special times of the year. Distribute them to area community centres, or hospitals
- Mentor a younger person
- Learn to be a peer counsellor
- Leave the hardcover books at home. The wide variety of airplane types makes it impossible to quantify the impact of a passenger's luggage weight, but planes use more fuel, and thus produce more emissions, when they carry heavier loads
- Eat, drink, and buy locally—the goods you consume won't have been flown or trucked in, so you're saving significant emission
- Replace your light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs
- Remind your parents to take the car for regular tune-ups
- Remind your parents to always recycle oil
- Get neighbourhood families to gather their old books and used clothes and household items to sell/ distribute
- Hold an event around New Year’s. Sell tickets or charge admission at the door
- Sponsor a charity sports event (cricket, baseball or soccer) between students and teachers. Sell tickets or charge admission at the door
- Hold a talent show at your school. Sell tickets or charge admission at the door
- Hold an art contest at school and with local artists as judges. Sell tickets or charge admission at the door. You could also sell this artwork and donate the proceeds to your favourite cause
- Hold a poetry reading in your favourite cafe. Get students or friends to read their own or published poems. Pass the hat and ask for contributions
- Hold a seasonal pot-luck dinner. For instance, in autumn ask participants to bring a seasonal dish. Eat outside under colourful trees. Organize simple games and activities to attract children to the event - leaf rubbings, scavenger hunt and story-telling. Charge admission and donate the money to charity
- Adopt cats and dogs from shelters instead of buying them from a pet shop. Many of the puppies in pet shops come from puppy mills
- Keep cats indoors. Indoor cats live longer, safer, healthier lives. As long as they have fresh air, toys, and, when possible, other cats to play with, they will be very happy
- Buy only products that have not been tested on dogs, cats, and many other animals. Encourage your parents to buy "cruelty-free" toothpaste, shampoo, and household cleaners
- Plant a tree in your backyard with your parents. One tree can provide a home for lots of animals like birds, squirrels and bats
- Get help if you see a wild animal in trouble. If you see an injured animal, call a wildlife rehabilitator or your local animal shelter. Don't attempt to touch the animal yourself
- Make a habit of recycling glass, cans, aluminium soda cans, soda bottles, aluminium foil, newspapers, etc.
- Store food in re-usable containers, instead of plastic wrap or aluminium foil
- Use old t-shirts as rags for cleaning, dusting or wiping up spills
- Organize a food drive collecting canned goods and non-perishable items for an agency
- Help teach a younger child to read
- Teach a senior friend how to use the computer and Internet
- Read books or the newspaper for a visually impaired person
- Clean up trash along a river, lake, beach or park
- Organize a drive for warm hats, mittens, socks and gloves
- Bring, prepare and serve a meal at an emergency shelter
- Organize a "walk-a-thon" to raise money for an agency
- Collect toys for an orphanage
- Have a basic knowledge of first aid
- Help at a local hospital
- Get together with friends and buy presents for children in an orphanage
- Make quilts or baby clothes for a low-income family
- Set up a friend system for children with special needs
- Paint a mural over obscene writings on walls
- Don’t buy crackers
- Discourage elders from paying bribes
- Donate to organizations that offer free immunizations for children in high-risk areas
- Donate water sanitation equipment to organizations dedicated to clean water initiatives in developing areas
- Donate oral re-hydration solution packets to alleviate diarrhoea-induced death among children
- Donate leftover bulk food to a local shelter
- Organize inter-ethnic or inter-religious community work efforts
- Bring people with diverse backgrounds together via sports/company social activities
- Mobilize company resources to “adopt” a local or international cause
- One can contribute financially and materially towards infrastructure (building, library, books, equipments etc.) Development of schools being run for such children
- Help children get admission into a formal school and / or sponsor the cost of formal schooling of a child / children
- Purchase charity gift certificates
- Teach children about diet and exercise to prevent chronic disease
- Use organic products for the lawn instead of using chemicals, which are harmful to the environment and harmful to the health of humans and animals
- Buy organic (no chemicals added) foods
- Avoid buying food individually wrapped in plastic
- Avoid buying aerosol products, which hurt the ozone layer, which protects us and the earth from the sun's harmful rays
Here’s something extra for adults
- Invite a local police officer to present a drug awareness or safety presentation
- Support green hotels and sustainable tourism companies. Visit national parks, and seek out hotels that have been certified by an independent third party for their environmental friendliness
- Choose public transportation whenever possible to cut down on auto emissions
- Replace your light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs
- Install solar water heaters or solar electric panels at your home or office
- Buy energy-efficient appliances
- Stop smoking, if you do so
- One can contribute financially and materially towards infrastructure (building, library, books, equipments etc.) Development of schools being run for such children
- Provide professional services such as legal advice, accounting and public relations etc. for needy people
- Help children get admission into a formal school and / or sponsor the cost of formal schooling of a child / children
- If there is injustice happening around then they can hold a signature campaign against it
- Buy a Toy for a Child
- Encourage your kids to help others
- Do nor scold children without serious reason
- Introduce kids to nature over weekend
- Pay your taxes on time
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