TAKE ACTION
Choose an Idea. Adapt It to Your Context. Make It Your Own.
Every action counts. A shared story, a public conversation, a political commitment, or a community initiative can help bring care into public debate and turn recognition into transformation.
01. Organize an Action 02. Tell a Story 03. Bring Care Into the Media 04. Activate Your Networks 05. Call for Change 06. Learn and Exchange
01
Organize an Action
Bring care and support into public and community spaces through events, gatherings, or creative activities.
You could:
- Organize a care walk or map care infrastructure in your community.
- Create a space for rest, listening, or mutual support.
- Paint a collective mural or organize an exhibition.
- Fill public spaces with messages and posters.
- Host a community meal.
- Organize a care and support resource fair.
- Hold an artistic or symbolic action in a public space.
02
Tell a Story
Use personal and community stories to show how care shapes people’s lives and what needs to change.
You could:
- Create a portrait accompanied by a quote.
- Write a letter to someone who cared for you.
- Share an object that represents care.
- Photograph a place where care happens.
- Complete the sentence: “Care made it possible for me to…”
- Create an emotional map of care.
- Record an interview or produce a radio program.
- Share stories through your own website, newsletter, or social media channels.
03
Bring Care Into the Media
Help bring care and support into public debate and reach audiences beyond your immediate community.
You could:
- Pitch a story to a journalist or media outlet.
- Publish an op-ed, interview, or feature.
- Organize a media briefing.
- Share relevant data, evidence, and community experiences.
- Facilitate interviews with care workers and people who receive care and support.
- Invite journalists to attend an activity or meet with community representatives.
- Use the campaign’s Press Kit to prepare your outreach.
04
Activate Your Networks
Use your communication channels and relationships to amplify the campaign and encourage others to participate.
You could:
- Share the campaign’s messages and visual materials.
- Adapt the campaign templates to your language and context.
- Publish content using #VoicesOfCare and #29OCT.
- Add campaign banners to your website or newsletter.
- Invite your team or community to share an experience related to care.
- Exchange messages with another city, school, community, or organization.
- Amplify actions taking place in other parts of the world.
05
Call for Change
Encourage governments, institutions, companies, and organizations to make concrete commitments on care.
You could:
- Send a letter to elected officials.
- Request a public or institutional commitment.
- Promote an official declaration.
- Submit a question to a parliament or local council.
- Convene a meeting with decision-makers.
- Review workplace leave provisions and internal care policies.
- Publish an annual commitment.
- Advocate for better care services, infrastructure, working conditions, and public policies.
06
Learn and Exchange
Create spaces where people can deepen their understanding of care, share experiences, and develop ideas together.
You could:
- Organize a community dialogue or Care Café.
- Host an intergenerational gathering.
- Screen a film followed by a discussion.
- Convene a community assembly.
- Organize a reading group or book club.
- Host a group podcast listening session.
- Organize an educational activity in a school or community space.
- Bring together care workers, people who receive care and support, public officials, and community members.
Share Your Contribution
Have you already developed an activity or do you want to contribute to the global conversation? There are two ways to participate through this website.
Add an Activity to the Map
Organizing an event, campaign, or activity related to care and support?
Add it to the year-round Activities Map and connect it with initiatives taking place in other communities around the world.