Awareness
“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness” – James Thurber
ISR
Individual Social Responsibility (ISR) is about an individual becoming responsible in his/her actions that affect communities outside his/her immediate circle, the immediate circle being family and friends.
According to the Bulgarian Civic Initiatives Foundation, the individual social responsibility includes the engagement of each person towards the community where he lives, which can be expressed as an interest towards what’s happening in the community, as well as in the active participation in the solving of some of the local problems. Under community we understand the village, the small town or the residential complex in the big city, where lives every one of us. Each community lives its own life that undergoes a process of development all the time. And everyone of us could take part in that development in different ways, for example by taking part in cleaning of the street on which he lives, by taking part in organization of an event, connected with the history of the town or the village or by rendering social services to children without parents or elderly people. The individual social responsibility could also be expressed in making donations for significant society causes – social, cultural or ecological. We should always keep in mind that our contribution is never limited to material objects, or financial sources, for our time, support, thoughts, wishes and prayers are also needed and required.