Debbie Tenzer, founder of the wildly successful charity website DoOneNiceThing.com (which has members in ninety countries and gets more than one million hits per month), has announced she is launching Heart-to-Heart Stimulus Packages, which is a unique volunteer program to help the unemployed lend a hand in their communities.
DoOneNiceThing.com promotes the idea of putting aside some time once a week to do an activity that is helpful or charitable for others. Tenzer believes that in today's world full of selfishness and bad news, helping others even just once a week is empowering for both oneself and others.
"Maybe we can't solve the big problems, but by working together we can solve a lot of smaller ones. . . By helping, we give people hope, and that makes us hopeful too. We are reaching out to the unemployed because we know that by helping other they will also help themselves."
Some of examples of volunteer activities that people have been doing are mailing tons of school supplies to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq who give them to local children so they can study; sending books to schools, libraries and hospitals; contributing numerous gifts for foster children whose birthdays sometimes are forgotten; and donating packages of pasta, cans of food,
and other food items to food banks.
I encourage all Unity organizations and institutions (as well as others) to research this project and contribute in any and every possible way you are able. It's a wonderful way to build connections within a community while simultaneously working to give support to those who could use help. It's also a way for a community's unemployed to feel involved and hopeful in the future, affirming that all is in Divine Order and working toward their greatest good.
See the press release at RNS.
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