Friday open thread: concrete actions with tangible effects

It's been a long and difficult week, for various reasons, and I figured that since I need a boost of optimism, others might appreciate it as well. It's with that need to feel motivated and uplifted that I bring you this week's prompt:

Tell me about concrete actions you have taken today (or at least recently) that will have a tangibly good effect on other people's lives.

This could be at the level of an individual stranger, or your friends, family and colleagues, or bigger — actions to help your community, fellow citizens of your country, or people on the other side of the world. No action is too big or too small to be counted here: it simply needs to have been undertaken with the aim to make at least one other person's life better.

( Three concrete actions, undertaken today )

I will remind any citizens of the United States among my Dreamwidth circle of the existence of the thisfinecrew comm, whose sole purpose is to encourage these specific types of small scale, concrete actions in the US political context.