What did people do on the Common Purpose 360 Day 2009?

"We cannot wait for great visions from great people, because they are in short supply...
we must light our own small fires in the darkness."
Charles Handy, writer and social philosopher

Take a look at what people did around the world to challenge their perceptions on the Common Purpose 360 Day 2009. If this inspires you to something of your own, why not take the first step and share your own action for 2010...

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Mike Bright

Contine to spend as much of my spare time as I can promoting the concept of home based volunteering through a website that I run called Help From Home http://www.helpfromhome.org The website contains over 450 positive actions that can be done from a persons home that will benefit a worthy cause, that ultimately has the potential to make this world a better place to live in. I find it very rewarding knowing that I could be putting smiles on people's faces - just because I can! 'See what you can do for the world, dressed just in your pyjamas'!

 

Samantha Saevitzon

We will be in Soweto launching The South African Ballet Theatre’s newest studio! Titled Matsatsawele (“movement to be admired”), the programme will offer children living in the area of Uncle Tom’s community Centre in Orlando West, Soweto, free access to ballet classes on a bi-weekly basis.

 

Ettienne

My personal pledge for some time has been and remains to be to reposition myself from being a corporate employee to being a social entrepreneur. This is a long term and ongoing pledge I have made to myself i.e. I will not define a new one for initiative below but will rather just re-apply the existing one.

 

Rolfe Eberhard

I and my family will do an overnight stay in Imizamo Yethu, an informal settlement in Hout Bay.

 

Louise van Rhyn

I will be enrolling people from my local Kenridge community as well as people from the ACTSA community to join me in a House Build with the Niall Mellon Housing Trust in Wallecedene – this will happen early 2010

 

Veronica Royston

I will be attending the education conversation convened by Ministry of Education on the 10th October

 

Pamela Meselane

I will offer to volunteer at Valkenberg (Psychiatric) Hospital for an hour or two. I have always wanted to do this with my youth group. Lots of protocol has to be followed. Awaiting response as to what, when and how.

 

Angela Deutschmann

To do weekly groceries at a supermarket in a very different part of town from where I live

 

Boniswa Pezisa

Listen to an African Vernacular Radio Station – Mmungane Lonene – it's Tsonga, one of the 4 African languages that I do not speak or understand

 

Suzanne Wood

host a colleagues' barbecue. Our company is about to be bought out and most people will lose their jobs. Many have low aspiration and are only able to see the doom and gloom view of life. I have set up a whiteboard with the heading “I am part of the team that…” and invited all to add their personal contributions. For 10/10 I am hosting a barbecue at my home where they can bring their families, we will do some mini workshops and show examples of CVs for them to begin writing an up-beat version of their lives. It might not be world-changing but it might change the world for some of my colleagues.

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