Changing Communities

Communities are not changed by politicians or by government organisations, communities are changed by individuals taking responsibility for themselves and for the people they come in contact with.
A community is like a garden, maintain it regularly and it will provide fruit, vegetables and flowers for viewing pleasure. Ignore it for a while and it will become full of weeds and give little. This is what has happened in a lot of communities today. Most of us have become selfish and self centered. We are too busy to deal with our community. We are bearing the fruit of this today with violence, substance abuse and vandalism.
We have become trapped by the lie that we can do nothing. The reality is that if one individual takes action to improve their community, they will be able to have an effect on those whom they can influence which could be only five or six people. If ten people attempt to take action to improve the community, the effect is not fifty or sixty people but anything up to 3600 as the effect that is made on the five or six people is on passed by the five or six people that the ten people started with.
Hand outs and victim mentality will never change anything. Changing how you think about yourself and changing your attitude to those around you can change the future of nations.