Our awesome Community Service categories, special thanks to Nelson Mandela:)

We organized our brainstorms for the upcoming year's community service activities, and we've found a lot of things to think about from nahtam.com's article '67 ways to do community work' that they made for Nelson Mandela day.

They had 6 main categories lined up with our brainstorms:

1. Help out for good health - Health
2. Become an educator - Education
3. Help those living in poverty - Poverty
4. Care for the youth - Youth
5. Treasure the elderly -
6. Look after your environment - Environment

Then there was another category that came up in the 67 ways but that they didn't break out: Animals! Put all that together, and we got the following list:

At the top left of that chart are the things that we think Rotaract Jumeirah is specially suited for: support organizations, raise funds, and raise awareness for organizations that work in this area.

One thing that you won't find on our list is the elderly. We'll probably write more about that in the future, but the short answer is that the elderly are already quite treasured in Emirati culture. That said, I'm sure we will find ways that we can treasure the elderly in the future, and I hope to write more on this topic.

Break-out our categories, and you get to see our whole brainstorm for the Community Service events, and (of course) more are popping up all the time.

Now that we've got an initial framework to understand our work on, thanks to nahtam.com, Nelson Mandela, and Mindjet's MindManager, we're set for the next step: planning our specific activities!