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.
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 someone0.5 h
- Explaining administrative mail0.25 h
- Making an administrative appointment0.25 h
- Translating a useful document0.5 h
- Helping to prepare an appeal0.75 h
- Assisting with a housing application0.75 h
- Accompanying to a service desk0.5 h
- 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 warehouse0.75 h
- Handling a delivery for an association0.5 h
- Staffing a reception desk during an event0.75 h
- Assisting with an association's communication0.75 h
- Helping with simple bookkeeping0.75 h
- Training new volunteers1 h
- Repair association equipment0.5 h
- 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 basis0.75 h
- Spend an entire evening with one's parents0.5 h
- Recording an elder's life story0.75 h
- Digitize family photos and archives0.75 h
- Accompanying a relative to an appointment0.5 h
- Tidying up a relative's home0.5 h
- Cooking and delivering meals to a relative0.5 h
- Reconnecting a broken family bond1 h
Migrants and refugees
Helping someone find their bearings in a new country
- Welcoming a recently arrived family0.75 h
- Assisting with administrative procedures0.75 h
- Giving an hour of local language lessons0.5 h
- Assisting with a housing search0.75 h
- Helping to enroll a child in school0.5 h
- Translate during an appointment0.5 h
- Gather clothes suitable for the season0.5 h
- Helping to prepare for a job search0.75 h
Water, heat, and cold
Where summer burns and winter bites, a small gesture can save a life.
- Distributing water during heatwaves0.5 h
- Maintaining a public water point0.5 h
- Helping to fill a family water tank0.75 h
- Carrying firewood to a family0.75 h
- Weatherstripping windows and doors before winter0.75 h
- Distributing blankets and sleeping bags0.5 h
- Checking in during a cold snap0.25 h
- Repair a leak for a person in need0.5 h
Inclusion and fighting isolation
Making room for those we often forget to invite.
- Invite an isolated person to a table0.5 h
- Taking someone to a group outing0.5 h
- Lead a workshop open to all0.75 h
- Making a venue accessible for an event0.75 h
- Provide sign language interpretation0.75 h
- Rewrite a document in plain language0.5 h
- Mentor a newcomer in the neighborhood0.75 h
- Mediating a neighborhood conflict0.75 h
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 person0.25 h
- Caring for a sick person1 h
- Supporting someone through bereavement0.75 h
- Visiting a stranger in the hospital0.75 h
- Staying with a person in distress0.75 h
- Writing a letter for someone0.25 h
- Listening to a teenager in difficulty0.5 h
- Relieving an exhausted family caregiver0.75 h
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