How to Effect Change in the World

Raising awareness is how you get a cause to be known and without this step it is impossible to get people to donate time or money if they don't know about the cause. We talked a lot in class about education as a joke but education and raising awareness are the same thing. You are informing people of a problem that they might not have known existed. The next step is to donate. Donations don't always need to come in the form of money as time is just as valuable if not more so. With problems such as global warming there is so much to be done such as fundraising for solutions, raising your voice to parliament, and donating money for habitat restoration. For other problems, particularly ones that involve other governments such as child soldiers, it is difficult and dangerous to intervene and in these situations raising awareness is possibly the only thing that can be done. By educating people, many will pressure governments to do something and they will intervene peacefully (hopefully) to protect the people. It is unrealistic to believe that all things wrong with the world will be solved but small steps definitely make a difference.