20 Ways to Pay it Forward in Roanoke
- Cook at the Rescue Mission
- Buy coffee for the person behind you in line
- Compliment a stranger
- Donate clothes or food to a local charity
- Help a neighbor with yard work
- Visit with the elderly at a care center
- Volunteer to read to children at the library
- Collect trash at a local park or trail
- Walk the dogs for a local animal shelter
- Donate books to a literacy program
- Call your grandparents if you’re lucky & still can
- Visit Angels of Assisi and hold the cats
- Volunteer at Healing Strides to help special needs individuals with their therapeutic riding lessons
- Volunteer to help Meals on Wheels
- Join a river (“blue ways”) clean-up program
- Donate your empty aluminum cans to Habitat for Humanity (they cash them in for the non-profit)
- Volunteer to teach reading at the Blue Ridge Literacy Foundation
- Smile
- Remind the special people in your life that you love them!
- Do the dishes