Community care is essentially described as the activities and practices we engage in regularly to improve people’s lives in and out of our scope of reach.
It is also the policy of transferring responsibility for individuals in need, keeping and treating them well, addressing the gaps, and assisting them in becoming self-sufficient in their own lives.
Unlike self-care, which is equally necessary, community care is about the community, about collective efforts for the good of others.
Sharing resources is community care. It’s a concept that invites everyone to help others build and maintain decent mental and physical well-being. Individuals pool together their assets and support. They use their power, privilege, and resources to create more resources, time and space for others.
Through community care, we are all urged and invited to show up, add value, share, and create resources among one another to create a more extensive, dependable relationship.
While everyone can benefit from community care, it is a largely beneficial practice for marginalised communities that face systemic barriers that jeopardise their wellness, such as poverty and other social-economic challenges.
Community care can be a source of value where the marginalised can tap in and receive hope, healing, restoration, empowerment and love.
It supports people of all ages, socioeconomic backgrounds and with complex challenges requiring care in their homes, school, or community.
Because community care is the foundation of togetherness, you don’t have to be an expert in anything, a group or an individual, affluent or not, to serve others.
Interdependence is the root of community care as it is designed to create stability, flexibility, and safety. As a result, improving our societies is a collective and collaborative effort.
Community care is to work together to help ensure others’ needs are met.
You are invited to be the one.
