How do people find out about the voluntary activities?
(How many of them have ‘people know about it because their parents did it’ going for them?)
Or maybe it’s some kind of paradox of choice, that if you have many activities to choose from, none of them seems clearly best, so you choose none?
It seems harder for separate organizations to propagate such a variety of messages. Though 5 people would like to play soccer, 3 basketball, (some more other things), and then (stag-hunt style) there’s not enough people for soccer or basketball so that’s not what happens.
Maybe it’s a bigger issue than it looks, and can’t be fixed by sending an entire city a message like ‘At dawn, we meet in the park for soccer, this Saturday*’.
*For the particular city, the particular activity might be better chosen to be something else. Also, yes, what if too many people show up.
How do people find out about the voluntary activities?
Great question! Let me think...
afternoon activities at school;
competitions for kids that school tells you about;
generally, all kinds of clubs for children are advertised at schools;
parents sign you up for a club;
teambuilding at work;
announced in various papers, including ones that are given to everyone for free;
google;
advertised on facebook;
told by a neighbor;
given a flyer;
you organize it yourself.
So, in theory, there are many ways. Though some of them require agency on your side, so if you are not the type of person who does these things, and if no one even told you that this is an option, it effectively does not exist for you.
In some villages, they still have a local village radio that among other things announces all local activities, so if you want to organize soccer, people will know. In towns, there is sometimes a municipal neswpaper which could be used to announce such activities, but now you need to plan a few weeks in advance (and then your plans can be ruined by weather). Some communities have a local facebook group, you could share the information there. At some places there are bulleting boards, I wonder if anyone still reads them. You could print little flyers and throw them in neighbors’ mail. Activities for kids you could try to promote at local schools: either by a flyer or by telling the relevant teacher (e.g. contact the gym teacher about sport activities).
Yet most of these things require some agency, which I suspect is the greatest obstacle. The most convenient ones seem to be: village radio, and local facebook group (assuming one already exists).
How do people find out about the voluntary activities?
(How many of them have ‘people know about it because their parents did it’ going for them?)
It seems harder for separate organizations to propagate such a variety of messages. Though 5 people would like to play soccer, 3 basketball, (some more other things), and then (stag-hunt style) there’s not enough people for soccer or basketball so that’s not what happens.
Maybe it’s a bigger issue than it looks, and can’t be fixed by sending an entire city a message like ‘At dawn, we meet in the park for soccer, this Saturday*’.
*For the particular city, the particular activity might be better chosen to be something else. Also, yes, what if too many people show up.
Great question! Let me think...
afternoon activities at school;
competitions for kids that school tells you about;
generally, all kinds of clubs for children are advertised at schools;
parents sign you up for a club;
teambuilding at work;
announced in various papers, including ones that are given to everyone for free;
google;
advertised on facebook;
told by a neighbor;
given a flyer;
you organize it yourself.
So, in theory, there are many ways. Though some of them require agency on your side, so if you are not the type of person who does these things, and if no one even told you that this is an option, it effectively does not exist for you.
In some villages, they still have a local village radio that among other things announces all local activities, so if you want to organize soccer, people will know. In towns, there is sometimes a municipal neswpaper which could be used to announce such activities, but now you need to plan a few weeks in advance (and then your plans can be ruined by weather). Some communities have a local facebook group, you could share the information there. At some places there are bulleting boards, I wonder if anyone still reads them. You could print little flyers and throw them in neighbors’ mail. Activities for kids you could try to promote at local schools: either by a flyer or by telling the relevant teacher (e.g. contact the gym teacher about sport activities).
Yet most of these things require some agency, which I suspect is the greatest obstacle. The most convenient ones seem to be: village radio, and local facebook group (assuming one already exists).