Want to Make a Difference?

 

I, as a girl in the 21st century, want to feel as though I am honouring the women of my past, who fought hard throughout the first and second waves of feminism. I want to use my education, my rights, my voice to try and make a positive change for someone else, as they did for me all of those years ago. However, making this decision was the easy part, the difficult part is actually finding a way to make this contribution.

No longer do we protest through strikes, picket fences and tying ourselves to trees. Sure, these sort of protests do still exist, which I think is great, but as a student living in Australia, a country that is fortunate to have few problems (not saying that we don't have any, but that is a discussion to be had at another time), I do not have the opportunity to join in these said protests. So, in my desperation I have turned to my second home, the big blue, the Internet.

If you know what you are looking for, there are millions of sites, groups and campaigners asking for people to sign their petitions, join letter writing campaigns and to help make a difference. I was amazed that this was all out there, and I didn't even have a clue!

Change.org

This website is extremely useful and effective. You simply put in your location and servers will bring up petitions that are related to you and your area. To sign up, you simply find a petition fighting for something you agree with and believe in, put in your details and once you click sign petition, you will be signed up to the site. From there, you can track the progress of the petition, share with your friends and find out whether the petition has been successful or not.

Globalcitizen.org

Yet another very good website for raising awareness. The difference between this site and change.org is that global citizen is not solely built upon petitions that relate to you and your country. This site provides information on issues that are world wide, some contain petitions you can sign, others simply have a whole lot of interesting information that you have the opportunity to research further and to share with others. You earn points for sharing and signing petitions, so you can see how involved and how much of a difference in raising awareness you are helping out with.

You can also join letter writing campaigns for environmental, political or social issues. Simply go to the good old Google search bar and type in something along the lines of " (Issue) letter writing", and something is bound to come up. If not, find the council or organisation website, make an enquiry about letter writing services and go from there.

I am so glad that I took the step to find out how I can feel like and make a difference in the world and with issues that I care about greatly. I would love to see what you guys can do, because as citizens in a global society, and being the ones privileged and lucky enough to live in countries that value education and provide opportunities to help make a difference, it is our duty to do all we can to help others experience the life we do everyday.

I hope you enjoyed this different kind of post!

Until next time lovelies,

Neve xx