Good Neighbour month part one

The Good Neighborhood Month is on for the month of July.  It is run by the Arrow neighbourhood, UrbanSeed and Credo cafe. Here we think about who is our neighbors. Our neighbors are in the City, Footscray, Carlton and Moonee valley. In terms of thinking about our neighbors we tend to think of them as kind loving people. Here we have a four part series and each week we do stuff and learn from it. 

Lentils as Anything and donating magazines

 We visited Lentils as Anything on one cold day for soup and food. Here you pay by donation so we donated magazines and some coins as we know people love to read. We also want to donate a shift.

Donating old things
We had a bag full of unwanted stuff so we donated it to the Salvation Army's Winter appeal. In there was a blanket, toys and a cup.

We didn't expect anything in return, but I got dessert in return.

Buying coffee for colleagues
On another cold day I bought coffee for my colleagues as they didn't want to brave the cold. They didn't want to get out of their warm offices and I had some money on my gift card which I had to use up.
They were happy that I bought them coffee.

Lessons learnt
We gave away a few things, but we didn't expect anything in return. Now we went away with that warm fuzzy feeling.

We want to do more to help our neighbours. In the coming weeks there'll be more things such as buying a meal for a homeless person and giving them some silvers. There'll also be the write up of the Good Neighbourhood party.