I was going into Dublin on last week and there were three young girls about eight or nine on my street with a little table selling stuff. I went over to it and they were selling sweets.
They asked me did I want to buy something and that the money was going to a good cause. I asked them what the cause was and they told me all the profits were going to help the people that were affected by the Haiti earthquake.
Needless to say I was delighted to see three young Active Citizens who were leading through Active Citizenship at such a young age. There are quite a few people out in the world who are three and four times the age of these young girls that would not show such great leadership.
I paid €10 for a bar of chocolate and the young girls were delighted and I was so happy to see some young active citizens on my street. I also let them know about Active Citizenship week that is happening in Ireland from the 3rd to the 10th of October and pointed them to the website www.fifty-ways.com
This was a great example to me that sometimes we can overcomplicate simple things and that it can be good to just get out and do something simple like selling chocolate bars.
