Last week I told you about the paper delivery guy who decided to help his community by delivering groceries to over 100 people on his route – www.characterandleadership.com/coronavirus-4-one-of-the-finest-people-in-the-world/. At the conclusion of that post, I asked, “What will you do to help your community?” The number one response was, “I’m going to stay home and stay safe.” I cannot fault that response. The government is telling you to stay home and to practice social distancing.
Still, I thought, there must be something that would allow young people to stay safe and still help your community. It could be as simple as cutting your neighbor’s lawn or asking others if they need anything before your parent goes to the store. Something. If we are in this together, we all need to do our part. This is the time, I thought, for young people to step up.
So, earlier this week, one of my good friends told me about the volunteer work his children are providing. Every day, a man drops off 4 boxes of materials on their front porch. In each box there are enough raw materials to make 300 surgical masks for doctors and nurses to wear when treating covid-19 patients. My friend has four children. For several hours each day, these kids form an assembly line and put together 1,200 shields. These completed shield are sent to hospitals in Detroit, New York and Chicago.
Pretty cool, heh? So, today, I asked my 4 girls if they would like to volunteer their time for such an important cause. The response from these 14, 12, and 10-year-old girls was a resounding yes. Tomorrow morning, 4 boxes get dropped off at our house. The next day, the guy will pick up these completed shields and ship them to hospitals. My family stays safe and our society benefits. My guess is my daughters will look back at this action with pride.
Your Turn: So, I ask again. What can you do to help your community/country during this coronavirus pandemic?
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I think I could make small care packages for the delivery drivers and workers. This could include hand sanitizers and I’ve even seen people have toilet paper for them to take.
Personally i would pass out hand sanitizer for anyone who needs it, and make sure i wipe down anywhere i’ve been within school with wipes
I could ask my family to please go to the store and get me some boxes and hand sanitizers toilet paper i also could go to my neighbor’s and cut their lawn. I thought this would be a good idea to do and other stuff i could do to but that is mostly it.
I would give ever one hand sanitizers toilet paper.
I can make masks for my mom’s work (my mom’s a security/first responder at General Motors, where they are making the ventilators), medical clinics, and hospitals. We have sewing machines, plenty of thread, and two people at home (me and my dad) to make them. We could pick up elastic and the other materials needed.
I can make masks and give them to my neighbors
I can help you my elderly neighbors with yard work so they don’t come out.
I can make sure to keep a distance from others when I’m out and about
I can make some masks and send them in, or I could help my neighbors out with yard work.
My mom has an older coworker who broke her ankle and lives alone, so we could drop off groceries.
I will continue to send in extra supplies and snacks to the nursing home up the street from my house.
Keep myself inside and not go out, this is following lockdown procedure even though they are getting uplifted
After reading last week about the paper delivery guy, I was inspired to ask my neighbors if they need anything like groceries. Some turned me away but some allowed me to help. I will definitely continue to help them out until it’s safe to be out.
After reading last week about the paper delivery guy, I was inspired to ask my neighbors if they need anything like groceries. Some turned me away but some allowed me to help. This week I’ve started to do other task for them too like mowing the lawn and taking their trash out. Until this break is over, I will continue helping my neighbors.
I think that we can all try to spread positivity in whatever way we can. And also I could help my mom by helping her older friend get groceries or whatever she needs.
I could make sure all my loved ones have what they need during this situation. If that is someone to talk to or anything materialistic like food or cleaning supplies.
I could make sure all my loved ones have what they need during this situation. If that is someone to talk to or anything materialistic like food or cleaning supplies. And continue to stay inside as much as possible to not get the virus and spread it to my family.
I am going to stay away from older citizen to keep them safe.
Stay home. Stay Safe.
I will stay home.
I could ask my neighbors if they need help doing anything and help my mom with the things that she has to do at home during this.
I can make sure my grandparents especially have what they need, and are staying safe!
stay home and make sure i’m following the guidelines
stay home do the think i need to and to make sure my grandma is safe
I would Get food to people in need and make some masks for people who can’t afford it and buy a whole box of gloves
I think that we could make tons of group or Friends and make lots of homemade
Masks and blankets. As I was across town and notice how lucky and easy I have it I realize That people can’t afford masks which puts them in danger as well as other people. I think the blankets could be delivered to the hospitals to make the covid patients feel well and safe.
I could give the mailmen hand sanitizer and donate masks to nurses and hospitals.
I think I could make small care packages for the delivery drivers and workers. Then do some of it myself and go around to people in the inner city to help.
By not only staying at home and wearing a mask, I can encourage many of my fellow students to do the same. Being high schoolers, staying at home is not the easiest thing to do. We need to create a certain way for us to gather in a safe environment so we are not at risk for the disease.
it depends if I would help them. It depends if I feel like it but I probably would.
there are several things I personally can do to help out during these tough times. one of the most basic things is simply staying home and saying no to social events that could lead to being sick
I will volunteer with an organization that helps get sanitary supplies (wipes, hand sanitizer, mask, etc) to those who aren’t able to afford it; as well as buy some of those supplies and donate them.
I could check on my neighbors and see if they need anything. I could also stay in touch with my extended family to make sure they don’t feel lonely during this time.
I think that something that I could do during this time is ask people who don’t have a lot of personal interaction and check up on the to see if they need anything especially if they are older or have underlying health issues.
I would personally pass out and make sure everyone that needs hand sanitizer gets it. i would also carry extra masks so if someone breaks theirs or doesn’t have one i can give to them to keep everyone safe.
I could make masks for everyone with old clothes.
We can remodel the neighborhoods and make them look better and keep the trash off the streets and keep 6th apart at the same time.
We can remodel the neighborhoods or maybe volunteer at a hospital or clinic with supplies and donations.
We can remodel the neighborhoods or volunteer at a hospital or clinic with supplies or donations by fundraising.
We can help the community by keeping it clean and beautiful.
What will you do to help your community? I’m going to stay home and stay safe. Practice social distancing
We can do our best to quarantine, or maybe keep distance while helping people in need.
i would pass out hand sanitizer for anyone who needs it
I would just stay home because im an introvert
I can purchase items and donate them to the food shelf.
I can purchase items and donate food
I could go around the neighborhood and ask people if I could walk their dogs for them
Live normally. When you block all this stuff out you won’t get immune to it. Just like when pilgrims set foot in America they spread sicknesses that natives died right away from because they were blocked of from those sicknesses.
I would give people hand sanitizers.
I would hand out hand sanitizer to anyone that needs it. I would also help out my neighbors if they require my assistance.
I would make sure everyone has masks, wash their hands, eat healthy, stay 6ft apart or more. Dont cough on people etc.
Provide food for the people who can’t afford it. To stay in Quarantine if you have the virus. To help at shelters or food shelves.
We carried a ton of masks in our car and when we saw someone we would ask if they wanted one we especially gave some to the homeless because a lot of stores had policies where you needed a mask and since most don’t have credit cards to mobile order masks we handed them out.