Catalogue of good deeds
Choose an action, perform it, then send your report. 240 actions described, and yours if it is missing.
Neighbourhood help
Small gestures on the landing and in the street, those that change a day.
Elderly people
Time offered to those whose days have become silent.
People with disabilities
Making accessible what is not yet.
Children and teenagers
A helping hand with school, a listening ear, a safer path.
Families in difficulty
When the month is too long, a gesture is worth more than a speech.
Homeless people
Dignity first: warm, clean, listened to, and guided.
Animals
Those who ask for nothing also need us.
Nature and waste
One hour of litter picking is worth a thousand ecological speeches.
- Pick up litter from a beach45 min
- Clean up a forest trail45 min
- Clean up a courtyard or square30 min
- Pick up cigarette butts from a street30 min
- Clean up a riverbank1 h
- Organize a collective sorting session45 min
- Maintaining a neighborhood composter30 min
- Raise awareness about waste sorting at a market45 min
Trees and planting
Planting, watering, watching: the long-term commitment to the common good.
House and building
The entrance of a building tells the story of the respect we have for one another.
Street and neighborhood
Repairing common spaces means repairing social bonds.
Transport and road
A shared journey, a changed wheel, a scare avoided.
Health
Being there when health is a concern.
Learning
Passing on what we know how to do costs nothing and is worth a lot.
Digital support
No one should lose their rights for lack of a screen.
Papers and rights
A letter understood is one less worry.
- Fill out a form with someone30 min
- Explaining administrative mail15 min
- Making an administrative appointment15 min
- Translating a useful document30 min
- Helping to prepare an appeal45 min
- Assisting with a housing application45 min
- Accompanying to a service desk30 min
- Organize an information session on rights1 h
Work and job search
A proofread application can change a life.
Food and cooking
Feed, share, and save what was going to be thrown away.
Culture and creativity
Shared beauty is also part of mutual aid.
Sport and movement
Moving together, especially those who no longer dare.
Emergency aid
When everything moves fast, presence matters more than perfection.
To associations
Helping those who help multiplies the good.
- Tidy up a non-profit warehouse45 min
- Handling a delivery for an association30 min
- Staffing a reception desk during an event45 min
- Assisting with an association's communication45 min
- Helping with simple bookkeeping45 min
- Training new volunteers1 h
- Repair association equipment30 min
- Organize a donation drive1 h
Family and elderly relatives
Caring for one's own matters as much as caring for strangers.
- Caring for an elderly relative on a daily basis45 min
- Spend an entire evening with one's parents30 min
- Recording an elder's life story45 min
- Digitize family photos and archives45 min
- Accompanying a relative to an appointment30 min
- Tidying up a relative's home30 min
- Cooking and delivering meals to a relative30 min
- Reconnecting a broken family bond1 h
Migrants and refugees
Helping someone find their bearings in a new country
- Welcoming a recently arrived family45 min
- Assisting with administrative procedures45 min
- Giving an hour of local language lessons30 min
- Assisting with a housing search45 min
- Helping to enroll a child in school30 min
- Translate during an appointment30 min
- Gather clothes suitable for the season30 min
- Helping to prepare for a job search45 min
Water, heat, and cold
Where summer burns and winter bites, a small gesture can save a life.
- Distributing water during heatwaves30 min
- Maintaining a public water point30 min
- Helping to fill a family water tank45 min
- Carrying firewood to a family45 min
- Weatherstripping windows and doors before winter45 min
- Distributing blankets and sleeping bags30 min
- Checking in during a cold snap15 min
- Repair a leak for a person in need30 min
Inclusion and fighting isolation
Making room for those we often forget to invite.
- Invite an isolated person to a table30 min
- Taking someone to a group outing30 min
- Lead a workshop open to all45 min
- Making a venue accessible for an event45 min
- Provide sign language interpretation45 min
- Rewrite a document in plain language30 min
- Mentor a newcomer in the neighborhood45 min
- Mediating a neighborhood conflict45 min
Clothing and items
Giving a second life instead of throwing away.
Village and agricultural work
Rural areas stand strong through mutual aid between neighbors.
Heritage, languages, and dialects
What is not passed on disappears in a single generation.
Listening and presence
Sometimes, the only useful thing is to stay and listen.
- Regularly calling a lonely person15 min
- Caring for a sick person1 h
- Supporting someone through bereavement45 min
- Visiting a stranger in the hospital45 min
- Staying with a person in distress45 min
- Writing a letter for someone15 min
- Listening to a teenager in difficulty30 min
- Relieving an exhausted family caregiver45 min
Proposing my own action
Your idea is not on the list? Describe it: the board will read it and get back to you.
by the Association Un Pour Tous Et Tous Pour Un