Community- social unit with commonalities such as norm religion, values, identity.
Communities share a
sense of place situated in a given geogrpahicalarea or virtual space thru online communicating platforms
10 ways to help for community
1. Reach out to a neighbor in need- every n has peeps or families in need, from el or handicapped
shut-ins to strggling single parent household
2. Perform an act of random kindness- buy healthy snaks for your off or the teacher in your childs
school, pay the tolls for sevral people behind you, give an umbrella to someone stuck in th
eporuing rian
3. Mentor children at your local chool lib or neighborhood center- all orgs that deal with children
need adults of any age working with children in a variety of way from afte chool tutoring to
recreational and sport activities
4. Serve at a local soup kitchen or food banks- there is no greater gift than help feed thos in your
comm who are down on their luck and would go hungry if not for the ervicesprovided for the
5. Donate blood- you can help save the life of one or more people by simply giving a pint of your
blood at your local blood banks, or during mobileblood visit to your community, school or office
6. Volunteer at the local animal shelter rescue groupd or human society- the naimal are part of our
communitie too, many of these shelter and rescue org need much help to achieve their mission
7. Visit volunteering related websites to find multiple opps to serve- one of the greatet benefi of
the internet is the amount of website that can help connect people with local org that
desperately need help
8. Pick up trash along the road at a local park or along the banks of river stream or lakes- many
times tehre are organized efforts in claning some of thee lcoations, but there is nothing stopping
any of us frm picking up litter when we see it, and smokers? Put the butt in the trash not on
ground
9. Help build a home with habitat for humanity- working with habitat not only literally builds a
community but also help welcome a needy family who would not have a home without help
from people in that community, no building skills are necessary t volunteer
10. Contact your local unity idk, rd cross or army salvation for discovering new service opps- these
and other local aid orgs are clearing houses of many oppurtunitie to serve in your community,
maiking a difference in the lives of your neigbors
Diff types of coomunities
Interest
Action
Place
Practice
Circumstance
Formal communities- engage in joint dicusions and activites
Informal cmmnities- consist of set of personal relations, social network common interest or
emotional sources of motivation
Global- aggregate of nation states pov twars issue of human right global warming and climate
change, peace and order, socio economic conditiona as wellaa s disputed issues such a territorial
conflict
Sectoral coomunities- voluntary sec and non profit including the ngos
Social space comm- phical
Community development- process when people come together to take action on whats important to
them all should have access to health wellbing wealth justicice and opps
Community immersion- a stretgy that goes beyod acquainting with community concerns but make
possible participation in the olution
Integration
1. Home visits
2. Living with selected families preferably with key informants
3. Informal discussion with indi or groups
4. Sharig household and comm activities
5. Attendance in social gatherings
6. Assiatnc n production of work