SethGreene531 · M
Your list is great, and sums up everything I'd like to see provided to a world in desperate need.
Similarly:
Ongoing funding to further sustainable food and water projects in the 3rd world, and intiatives to give their women and children education. Includes groups like Doctors Without Borders, and Orbis International, Plan, and World Vision
Housing and rehabilitation for the homeless, addicted, or troubled adults or youth with a transition to education and employment and full home ownership.
Paired with an at-risk youth, and anti-gang program. Also open to those released from inarceration and struggling to restart their lives or trying to stay out of trouble.
Disaster relief assets and reconstruction.
Street evangelism and outreach support and resources.
Community development programs.
Enhance Early pregnancy/Family planning centers. Shelters for at risk children and women, resettlement assistance and programs.
Further fund crisis hotlines and services including adult, youth, LGTBQ, and veterans (PTSD, etc)
Initiatives that promote peace between nations, and cross divides in inequalities or prejudices.
Comprehensive Veteran's services programs.
Financial gifts for post secondary education, mortgage payment, rent, or bills. New home restoration/purchases.
Free medical care. Legal aid and representation.
Similarly:
Ongoing funding to further sustainable food and water projects in the 3rd world, and intiatives to give their women and children education. Includes groups like Doctors Without Borders, and Orbis International, Plan, and World Vision
Housing and rehabilitation for the homeless, addicted, or troubled adults or youth with a transition to education and employment and full home ownership.
Paired with an at-risk youth, and anti-gang program. Also open to those released from inarceration and struggling to restart their lives or trying to stay out of trouble.
Disaster relief assets and reconstruction.
Street evangelism and outreach support and resources.
Community development programs.
Enhance Early pregnancy/Family planning centers. Shelters for at risk children and women, resettlement assistance and programs.
Further fund crisis hotlines and services including adult, youth, LGTBQ, and veterans (PTSD, etc)
Initiatives that promote peace between nations, and cross divides in inequalities or prejudices.
Comprehensive Veteran's services programs.
Financial gifts for post secondary education, mortgage payment, rent, or bills. New home restoration/purchases.
Free medical care. Legal aid and representation.
nobodyishome · 36-40, F
Buy friends
SleepingWithGhosts · 46-50, M
GoFish ·
i'd build dorms and schools for homeless and destitute people and work programs so people have something constrictive to do stuff like farming and agriculture construction and textiles like clothing manufacturing cooking and baking useful stuff you know so people can eventually be independent its nice for people to have their own houses but they have to put in an effort to have things not just expect everyone else to work and hand things to them i'm not a fan of spoiled entitlement attitudes but people should have a safe place to live at the very least so anyone kids or mothers or whatever need to escape from home and have somewhere to go that anyone could have a place to chill for a reasonable amount of time eh? crafting like furniture and pottery making too .. i liked glassmaking in my game but never tried it irl tho
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
ninalanyon · 70-79, T
Schools that treat children like human beings instead of cogs in a machine.
I was lucky; in all my time at school and university i felt that the system was working with me, that we were broadly speaking on the same side and that my needs and wants were taken seriously. But I didn't really think about it much, I took it for granted that arguing about a subject with a teacher would get me an explanation instead of a put down, that asking for money from the school fund to set up a computer club in 1969 was an ordinary thing to do (and to be granted). That a student strike in favour of better representation on the school council and more notice taken of it would be take seriously and not viewed simply as a disciplinary matter
It wasn't until I got to uni. and met people from other parts of the country that I understood how special those schools had been. It was brought home to me when I had described my school life to a group of fellow students in the pub one evening and one of my fellow students asked which public school it was. That's elite private school for Americans. But it wasn't, it was just the state non-selective Comprehensive schools run by the local education authority
So I want every student to have what I had but better because although it was very good it was light years from perfect.
I'd fund other types of education too. Particularly languages because that was one aspect of my schools that really was not good, I'd fund an exchange program that would enable families to relocate temporarily to another country to send their very small children to that country's kindergartens so that the children could learn the language by immersion without even trying. At least that's how it worked for my three; they never had any Norwegian As a Foreign Language instruction but within six months (by age four) they were not only fluent but indistinguishable from the locals.
Lastly I would lobby the government and provide funds to require all members of parliament and all civil servants to also participate in an exchange programme. This time to see, and where possible to participate in, the machinery of government in other countries so that they could bring back the best ideas from abroad and also to see how things perhaps should not be done,
I was lucky; in all my time at school and university i felt that the system was working with me, that we were broadly speaking on the same side and that my needs and wants were taken seriously. But I didn't really think about it much, I took it for granted that arguing about a subject with a teacher would get me an explanation instead of a put down, that asking for money from the school fund to set up a computer club in 1969 was an ordinary thing to do (and to be granted). That a student strike in favour of better representation on the school council and more notice taken of it would be take seriously and not viewed simply as a disciplinary matter
It wasn't until I got to uni. and met people from other parts of the country that I understood how special those schools had been. It was brought home to me when I had described my school life to a group of fellow students in the pub one evening and one of my fellow students asked which public school it was. That's elite private school for Americans. But it wasn't, it was just the state non-selective Comprehensive schools run by the local education authority
So I want every student to have what I had but better because although it was very good it was light years from perfect.
I'd fund other types of education too. Particularly languages because that was one aspect of my schools that really was not good, I'd fund an exchange program that would enable families to relocate temporarily to another country to send their very small children to that country's kindergartens so that the children could learn the language by immersion without even trying. At least that's how it worked for my three; they never had any Norwegian As a Foreign Language instruction but within six months (by age four) they were not only fluent but indistinguishable from the locals.
Lastly I would lobby the government and provide funds to require all members of parliament and all civil servants to also participate in an exchange programme. This time to see, and where possible to participate in, the machinery of government in other countries so that they could bring back the best ideas from abroad and also to see how things perhaps should not be done,