Little things you can do as citizens without waiting for government

[Prince patrick]

We always want change, well, that's a good thing. But I want you to understand that change doesn't always start with the government or the president. So many huge improvements and development happens because ordinary people decided to fix small things right where they live. We can't leave all the work for the government, as citizens we should be able to contribute to our country and society in the little way we can. People hate me saying this, but government doesn't really necessarily need to do everything for you..

Here are some little things that we can do without the government.
Picking up some trash at your doorstep or your compound.. you don't expect the government to come your house to clean it for you. You should make it a routine, at least every weekend, observe a sanitation, pick up the trash and clear the Grasses. If everyone does this, the neighborhood will be really clean.

Clear small drainage/gutter covers near your house before it rains so that when it begins to rain, water won't flood the road with dirty, trash cans and rubbers.

Share extra food and clothes with people on your street that have less, government doesn't need to come from door to door to check up on people to know if they have eaten or not. But you can, there is always a poor hungry neighbor, instead of calling him a lazy folks, try to take out some of your food and give it to them to eat, they are humans like you, life has just been unfortunate to them. So you should be able to help them a little.

Check on older neighbors when they haven't been seen for a while. This are simple things that you can do, you don't have to spend hours with them, we all have old woman and men in our neighborhood, check up on them, ask them how they are doing, try to make them smile a little, these little kind gesture never goes unnoticed.

Teach little kids in your area some little skills, when you see them playing around and walking about, you can call them, organized a class to teach them how to read, spell and write, you can teach them how to repair little things like a bicycle tire or how to play sports.

Fill small porthole in your area, we don't need to wait until the road is totally demaged and we start calling and insulting the government, so when you notice that there is a small porthole, you just need to fill it, let's come together collectively and fix little problems like this.

Organized a neighborhood watch group where neighbors exchange contact to be in touch with each other and keep an eye on each other. Because sometimes when there is an urgent incident that requires the presence of the police, we all know how long it takes them to arrive at the scene, so we should always be security conscious towards each other. To prevent any unforseen situations.

Resolving quite dispute with neighbors face to face before involving the authorities, some small conflicts can be resolved within ourselves, not all issues requires us to go the the authorities to start writing statements or petitions.

[Taricoins]

You didn't even give us some space to add our own contributions to the topic, lol.

Aside from the forementioned things we can do, there is this bond in my former neighborhood that extended to the whole street that I loved, like you said, they formed a group of landlords for each respective houses in the estates through out the streets and when issues like road development happens, we make contributions weekly until we got the money needed that we make the necessary repairs. That made the street easier for vehicles to navigate. I think that's one way we can help ourselves instead of waiting for the government

[EluguHcman]

We always want change, well, that's a good thing. But I want you to understand that change doesn't always start with the government or the president. So many huge improvements and development happens because ordinary people decided to fix small things right where they live. We can't leave all the work for the government, as citizens we should be able to contribute to our country and society in the little way we can. People hate me saying this, but government doesn't really necessarily need to do everything for you..

You are not the voice of the masses and so as you speak your mind, everyone is also entitled of their own opinion and when you try to persuade others believe your own, then you must be hated for that. Don't let yourself appear like one of the government agencies who covers up the incompetence of the government other wise, you will get hated again.

Hence, it is the duty of the government to take responsibilities of the welfare of the masses but as it stands, the government is a failure politicizing every sectors that the masses was supposed to be beneficiaries.
The truth is that since the government has lost its responsibilities, the masses should not fold their hands and perish out of incompetence of the leaders. So, there is every necessity for everyone to buckle up and prioritizes on providing for yourselves and make the society a comfortable place for ourselves. This is the reason why it is also said that security is a duty for everyone after the security agencies had aldo failed to protect us.

Perhaps even as an individual who struggles to create amenities for ourselves, the government does still have the power to decide for us which is why even as a private business sectors you still need approval of the authorities and so on, we get extorted by the taxes we are deemed to pay to the authorities.

Relying on the authorities is just a waste of time because they don't make you and the societies a priority as it was supposed to be.

[Zackz5000]

If the citizens do all you mentioned it means that the Government don't have any work to do again because everything you just mentioned is the Government responsibility.

You don't expect people to use their money to fix up the roads when the government already have budget for it, doing it is telling the Government to embezzled the money allocated for such projects, the money the Government keeps borrowing what are they using it for i believe this is what you should asked.

It's the Government responsibility to ensure basic amenities to the citizens and also make sure they have the interest of the citizens comes first.

[Spaceman1000$]

Bro you should understand that there is what we call corporate social responsibility of individuals in a community, individuals in their own benevolence can decide to give back to their community, however in doing so they are not compelled or under any law that they must do this things, is out of show of charity that they do some of these things. Also you must understand that the government has its own responsibility, so you cannot tell the citizens to start doing what government is supposed to do because the citizens pay tax to the government, so for things that the government is supposed to do like providing electricity, good infrastructure and healthcare, so for such situations you don't tell the citizens not to wait for the government because these are their own responsibility.

[Findingnemo]

Keep the street clear from trash and check the other people is good but it is not going to help the country to grow in any way and people want their government to provide for themlike create job opportunities, create the corrupt free system and collect fair tax rare and as individual we can't so many things that is why we formed something called government and paying taxes for it.