It’s the season of helping. Everyone can agree that the last two years have been life-alt="jobs and employers"ering in some way. One of the biggest ways is protecting and helping our kapuna more. Stores have offered kapuna hours to give the elderly their own time to shop without feeling crowded. Some even offer curbside pick-up. This season we hope you’ll step outside of your own experience a little bit more and offer assistance to your neighbors and the kapuna in your life and neighborhood.
Holiday Shopping
It’s not just groceries this time of year. It’s presents, wrapping, baking, and all the other holiday stuff this season brings. Kapuna may need grocery help, but they may also need help navigating holiday shopping or online shopping. Help a friend plan out their holiday shopping and even figure out online shopping.
Food Pick-Up
Using a smartphone to order online groceries can be difficult for anyone the first time. Show a friend how much easier life can be by showing them how to do it. Or offer to pick up items when you go to the local farmers market. Setting up a Venmo or CashAp service could go a long way in helping others feel more secure about asking for services when they know they can pay for them easily and quickly.
Offer a Listening Ear and Some Fun
In all of our efforts to help people, we may miss the most important thing: connection. December can be a lonely season for those with no family or friends close by. When offering to help a listening ear, a card game or a friendly walk could make someone’s day. Building friendships and connections keeps loneliness and depression away and gives everyone a sense of purpose, well-being, and love.
This season, get to know more of your neighbors, ask how you can help others, and spread aloha around our ‘aina. Just like ripples extend from a pebble going into the water, your service to others will spread and bring joy. Isn’t that what this season is about?
