Calling for Your Help in Resolving Community Issues

Calling for Your Help in Resolving Community Issues

Ideal City Living plans to establish a Center in GTA dedicated for community issues. The center would act as pivot and focal point for all our activities. In each area of the city, established religious institutions and community centres would be consulted to help understand the issues being faced by the society. To begin the process, Ideal City Living, in close consultation with individual communities in various areas of the city, will draw a list of community issues and prioritize them accordingly.

The data collected will then be utilized for further planning. Individuals and communities can help in listing and prioritizing the issues being faced by the society.

Your help to formalize the list would be a great support. Kindly come forward with your input and feedback. Let's endeavor to handle these issues on collective basis, using our human and professional resources and capabilities.

Once the priority is established, the next step for the center would be to organize specialized services. Subject specialist trained professionals will discuss the list with community activists in every area of GTA. This exercise would be centrally organized  by an individual or group.

Suggested List of Activities

Once the chance of living together in a multi-cultural have been granted, let's learn from the experience of all communities.

Some communities have put a system in place and regulated their members to deal with people within their community. If any of their member commits some unethical act. The victim can complaint against him. The community, then, compensates the victimized individual or organization, to the best of their ability.

There are some communities with great experiences of community service and are ready to share their experiences.

Helping community members in finding jobs, establishing their own business remains a major issue. We endeavor to provide them with professional support in this direction

We need to work on new immigrant settlement.

We need to guide, help and mentor International Students, in any way we could.

We need to organize ourselves to assist people planning to start business (with or without investment).

We also need to undertake personal self-improvement training programs, for our communities.

We need to help community members develop, write and present a Business Plan and Development Strategy. Senior professionals could help many in this direction.

Presentation Skills need to be developed too. We plan to help mentor old and young in this art.

Strains of family life in a new country is spoiling atmospheres within families. We also plan to target this issue by beginning a program of Family conflict reconciliation.

We would need to motivate and inspire our youth.

Driven by mixed need and greed, some ‘simple minded’ people amongst us, try and achieve their goals and fulfill their monetary and social obligations through shortcuts. There are people around who misguide such innocent people and take advantage of their naivety. We as a community need to be on guard against that. The center plans to be active against such unsophisticated self-proclaimed guide program which misguides others.

As new immigrants, we face a challenge of lack of expression. Sometimes have developed a bad impression about us. We need to change that impression. Taking responsibility as a group about any such incident, by any of our members, could just be one way of handling it.

There could be other ways too. Let’s explore. We need to improve our overall image – most agree.

Rumors and baseless information sharing is very common in the society. Let's try to foster an environment of trust building.

The above is just a short list. With your input, we need to make it comprehensive. And then we would need to see, what could be a tangible target for us to achieve and help our own community. This all would be social work – with no money involved.