Youth Sports Championship

1. Seek out sponsors to support the event.
2. Determine a theme for the championship, such as “Health and Wellness.”
3. Organize the championship schedule.
4. Invite local secondary schools to join in the competition.
5. Arrange stands with board games for added engagement.
6. Spread the word about the event and GDD.

Organize a Children´s march in favor of their rights

1. Build a committed team of volunteers.
2. Mobilize children from nearby schools to unite for the cause.
3. Collaborate on crafting attention-grabbing posters, highlighting messages like “Educate with Respect,” in strong support of children’s rights.
4. Pinpoint a specific date and time for the event; warmly invite friends, neighbors, and families to partake.
5. Utilize social media channels to amplify awareness about the impending march.
6. Notify local authorities, underscoring the peaceful nature of the march for smooth coordination and to prevent potential street disruptions.

Visit to Refugees or Immigrants Center in Vulnerable Situations:

1. Find out if there is a refugee camp in your city.
2. Gather a team of volunteers and formulate a plan.
3. Invite doctors, dentists, and nurses to participate.
4. Connect with the camp director to identify essential needs.
5. Contribute to the construction of sustainable shelters, sanitary facilities, and offer medical checkups for adults and children.

Design a wall of Good Deeds for your community

1. Locate a strategic and visible place in your community
2. Place a table with colored cards and pens
3. Write an instructional plaque on the mural that says, “What will you do today to make the world a better place?”
4. Schedule a day and time to allow people to write their notes and post them on the board.
5. Enable your community to participate in the initiative.
6. By writing the notes down and posting them on the wall, they will show how small-scale efforts to do good can turn into something huge!

Campaign Against Domestic Violence March:

1. Gather a group of 5 volunteers.
2. Create impactful signs conveying messages like “Enough of Violence” and “No means No.”
3. Choose a date and time, and invite friends, neighbors, and family.
4. Spread the word through your social media platforms.
5. Inform local authorities about the peaceful march, ensuring no road blockages occur.

Brighten the day of hospitalized children by distributing toys and sharing valuable moments with them:

1. Choose a hospital and get in touch with the pediatric department to discuss the feasibility of your initiative.
2. Rally volunteers who are willing to participate.
3. Gather toys or stuffed animals and craft letters containing uplifting messages.
4. Deliver the toys and play with the children respecting the necessary sanitary hygiene measures.

Organize a blood drive campaign and encourage your community to participate:

1. Find a suitable location for the activity, such as a public square or community center.
2. Get in touch with your local Red Cross chapter.
3. Conduct preliminary research on the venue condition: required equipment (tables, chairs, etc.), disposal facilities, and provisions like beverages and snacks.
4. Call for volunteers to assist during the event.
5. Promote the event within your community and through social platforms.

Read books to children!

1. Identify a children’s center or children’s home.
2. Contact the directors of the place and request permission to carry out a story reading.
3. Put out a call for volunteers to participate.
4. Choose two or three captivating stories.
5. Schedule a day and time for the activity
6. Plan a creative closing art activity to wrap up the event.

Start your own positive vision wall and share your vision of a better tomorrow!

1. Find an empty wall in a public place – or place a large board if you can’t find one you can use – use this as inspiration!
2. Place a table with cards and pens for everyone to use
3. Write an instructions plaque reading: “Write your vision for a better future!” or “What will you do today to make the world better?”
4. Let everyone fill in their notes and place them on the wall to showcase how their efforts to do good in a small scale can add up to a huge thing!

Spend the day helping out at your local animal shelter.

1. Gather a group of employees, friends, or family members.
2. Find a local animal shelter. Consider local SPCAs, or independent shelters.
3. Find out how you can help. It can be anything from taking the shelter dogs for a nice walk, to cleaning the shelter, or even advocating adoption!
4. Get treats for the animals, and spend a lovely day helping our 4 legged friends.

Beautify a local bare spot by planting trees for all to enjoy.

1. Locate a spot in your school yard or neighborhood that could use a splash of green.
2. Collect tree saplings, fertilizer, and gardening tools.
3. Find the perfect exact location for your trees, and dig evenly spaced holes for them.
4. Plant your trees, add some fertilizer, and watch as your spot becomes more beautiful with each day!

Get to know various populations and minorities around you through awareness and discussion.

1. Gather a group to discuss and research your local population.
2. Find a community center or another facility in which you can hold your activity.
3. Create a group activity or lecture to increase awareness and tolerance towards populations with special needs and towards minorities.

Reach out to special populations and plan fun activities to break your routine.

1. Locate a home or hospital for kids and adults with mental illness, autism or disability.
2. Set up stations including fun activities such as cooking workshops, arts and crafts, story-time and more.
3. Get your community together with the special population. This is a great opportunity to set up meaningful meetings between different populations who don’t get together as a matter of course.

Brighten the day of seniors or hospital patients with goodie bags packed with items to make them smile.

1. Find a senior home or hospital willing to participate.
2. Collect sweets and treats for the packages. Ask local businesses to donate supplies, or purchase the materials.
3. Allow a few hours for packaging and decorating.
4. Decide on how the packages will be given out to the elderly or hospitalized people: will the children themselves give out the packages? Will older people come to the nursing home / hospital and give them out? Will someone from the staff go to the nursing home? Will other volunteers go out and distribute the packages?

Spend quality time with your family while doing good for someone else.

1. Allow  your kids to choose between cooking hot meals, baking cookies, or preparing sandwiches.
2. Help them find a donation location or partner up with another organization in your area.
3. Prepare and pack the food and include pick-me-up notes written by the kids.
4. Distribute the packages to your chosen population.

Help local seniors with their yard work by offering to mow their lawn and assist with other garden activities.

1. Reach out to local seniors and ask which yard work they need help with.
2. Gather garden tools.
3. Spruce up their lawn and make them happy!

Many parks and natural spots could use some cleaning. The results will definitely benefit all passersby and inhabitants!

1. Locate a park or nature reserve that could benefit from cleaning and care.
2. Collect the necessary materials like bags to collect waste, gloves for volunteers and a truck for waste disposal.
3. Recruit volunteers for the project: advertise the need for volunteers through cross-community platforms and community centers.

A lot of farms have excess fruits and vegetables that can be donated to soup kitchens and other organizations.

1. Locate a farm or orchard where farmers donate their excess crops.
2. Get in touch with local organizations that can use the fruit and vegetables harvested. Soup kitchens and food banks are always a good choice.
3. Gather a group of volunteers to pick fruit and vegetables from orchards and fields where farmers donate their excess crops.
4. Help in packing the fruits and vegetables and distribute the packs to different organizations in your area.

Introduce different subjects to your community by interesting lectures and activities from professionals.

1. Recruit community professionals to lead an activity or give a  pro bono lecture in their specialty. For example: yoga instructor, life coach, time management specialist.
2. Pass out flyers to members of your community and advertise online.
3. Locate a public park or other public open space to host the activity.

Get to know your neighbors over a big communal picnic. Tell everyone to bring their signature dish!

1. Recruit volunteers to help run the community picnic.
2. Pick out a nice area to host the picnic.
3. Locate the necessary materials: tables, chairs, tablecloths, utensils, etc.
4. Send out invitations to your audience asking to RSVP which favorite dish they’ll be bringing!
5. Get to know your neighbors – make connections with members of your community who might be different from you.

Set up a big Good Deeds Day fair with information and ways to get involved with various NGOs in your community.

1. Set up a non-profit fair in a central location.
2. Invite organizations to set up info-booths in various subjects such as advancement of individuals with special needs, female empowerment and mental rehabilitation.
3. Create an area to take and give second-hand books.

Traffic reports are negative: turn the experience of getting a ticket into a positive experience by giving “reports” for doing good!

1. Get kids in your community to think of simple ways do good.
2. Decorate positive “reports” which will then be given out to strangers. Include the kids’ good deeds ideas in the reports.
3. Go to a central location and give out the reports to strangers.

Organize a blood donation drive and an organ donation sign-up booth and invite your community to do a special good deed.

1. Find a place suitable for the activity, such as a public square or a community center.
2. Contact your local Red Cross.
3. Research your necessities: the space conditions for the activity, equipment, such as tables, chairs. You will need trash cans, drink and refreshments.
4. Recruit volunteers to help out on the day of the event.
5. Advertise the event to the community.

Make hospitalized children smile by giving out cute teddy bears and cards and spending quality time with them.

1. Contact a local hospital or a children’s ward, and ask if they will be able to host your activity.
2. Gather a group of kids or other volunteers.
3. Get teddy bears and write cute “get well soon” cards.
4. Give out the teddies and cards to sick children in the hospital.
5. Stay to draw or play with the children.

Organize fun games that will also show what it’s like to live with disabilities.

1. Pick a central location and build stations that demonstrate living with disabilities.
2. Create a “minefield” through which people have to walk blindfolded to illustrate vision impairments, a game where you pass messages using pantomime, to illustrate hearing difficulties, and more.
3. Contact a voluntary association involved with accessibility for additional ideas and assistance in constructing the area.

Get the young generation together with older generations and create activities to bridge the age difference.

1. Locate a class or youth movements interested in participating.
2. Ask a local senior home to take part.
3. Choose an activity to do together – ask the youth to brainstorm ideas. Examples include storytelling, making crafts, making no bake cookies, drawing or coloring, etc.
4. For younger children, create a lesson focusing on the importance of giving and bringing the generations together. Example project: have youth make greeting cards for the elderly and then visit the senior home and distribute.

Build a pop-up library and invite your community to donate and take books. A great way to meet fellow readers!

1. Find a neighborhood that does not have a library, yet has a facility or free space that can be turned into a library.
2. If the place needs an overhaul – painting, fixing, cleaning and/or equipment – ask for donated materials and recruit volunteers to help.
3. Arrange for a storage space for collected books.
4. Encourage community members to donate used books.
5. Celebrate the library launch with the community. Celebrate with a fun story time for kids.

Encourage your local coffee shop to pay-it-forward with a cup of coffee…

1. Join in on the love of coffee and spreading the good with the gift of a cup to a stranger.
2. Print the Good Deeds Day & Discovering Coffee Card.
3. Put it in the coffee shop’s window or by the cash register for all to see.
4. Advertise this good deed to local customers and encourage them to pay-it-forward with a cup of coffee.
5. Share your photo on facebook or instagram using the #GoodDeedsDay #DiscoveringCoffee hashtag!

Help renovating a house for a low-income family in your area.

1. Locate a senior resident or a low income family that needs to renovate their home. Contact social security or an organization that specializes in renovating to see where you can help.
2. Gather a group of volunteers.
3. Get paint, brushes, and other tools you’ll need, according to the needs in the house.
4. Get to the house and make it look as if it was brand new!

Make your day all about the senior community- plan special activities and bring a smile to the faces of elderly people.

1. Senior citizens often feel lonely, so locate a senior or senior center to make them feel special.
2. Gather friends and family members to visit the Senior.
3. Decorate their home/room, draw something special for them, share your stories, ask them to tell you something, sing songs and enjoy the day with them.

Help elderly people in your community with basic home tasks.

1. Ask around in your community and find out which elderly neighbors could use an extra hand.
2. Gather a group of friends who’d like to lend a helping hand with basic tasks such as grocery shopping, cleaning, cooking, or even spend some quality time with them.
3. Determine tasks needed, and bring necessary tools such as for cleaning, cooking, and entertaining.

Play a sports tournament with children with special needs

1. Get together a few friends who like a specific sports game
2. Reach out to a school or center for children with special needs or disabilities and invite them to a game – make sure the field is accessible for everyone!
3. Play together or start a tournament of soccer, basketball, baseball or any other sport you like!
4. Bonus points if you can get a professional team involved!

Carrying groceries can sometimes be hard for the elderly population. Help them with their shopping!

1. Gather a group of kids or youth.
2. Find a market, supermarket or shopping center to hold your activity in.
3. Assist elderly shoppers in carrying their shopping bags. This activity can be extended to include assistance with shopping trolleys in supermarkets and shopping centers, assistance with unpacking the shopping at home, reorganizing the contents of the refrigerators etc.

Decorate and donate backpacks to underserved children in your area.

1. Gather a group of volunteers together – this could be a great opportunity to do something good with your children.
2. Decorate lunch bags or pencil cases in any way you like. Get creative!
3. Fill the backpacks up with what you made. You can also add writing utensils, nutritious food items or anything else you think could benefit children from low social-economic statuses.
4. Donate the backpacks to a school or organization in your area.

Warm the hearts of elderly people or hospital patients with “get well” cards.

1. Gather a group from a school, university, company or club.
2. Make “Get well soon” cards and decorate them with your group. You can also include a small candy or gift with the cards.
3. Hand the cards out to hospital patients, or elderly people in a nursing home. The cards will put a smile on everyone’s face!

Create your own Street Store easily.

1. Send a request to receive an open source file to create your Street Store.
2. Choose donations drop off locations for people to bring clothes and shoes.
3. Collaborate with an organization for the homeless.
4. Find a suitable location for your store. A local community square or center are great locations. If necessary, get permits to use public fences.
5. Put up your poster hangers, hang up clothes, arrange the shoes & open your store to the needy!

Put on a puppet show to entertain sick or at-risk children.

1. Choose a location to host the show.
2. Collect socks, buttons, ribbons, wool.
3. Make puppets with kids.
4. Put on a show at a shelter or Children’s Hospital.

Meet new people, learn about foreign cultures, and enjoy a delicious meal all in one evening!

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1. On a weekly or biweekly basis organize a melting pot dinner. Invite 5-8 members of your organization/company and 5-8 beneficiaries (refugees, foreigners, or other newcomers of the community)
2. Pick a menu and get cooking! Everyone can prepare their dishes separately before-hand and bring them, or you can prepare the meal together. We suggest putting together a menu that encompasses different dishes that your guests will be able to teach you how to make, while also being able to share the cultural significance behind the food
3. Organize other activities that promote interaction among everyone- such as place-mat ice breakers or having at least two of your guests to share a story (one from a beneficiary and one from a colleague)
4. Lastly, have a debrief where everyone can talk about the evening, what their expectations were, what they learned, and how the experience has impacted them

Nothing will cheer up your community seniors more than a happy sing along of their favorite songs!

1. Reach out to a nursing home or community center in you area
2. Make a list of oldies and classics that you know your grandparents love
3. Print out the lyrics of the songs for everyone in the center and find an instrumental version of the songs online or learn how to play them yourself
4. Bring the party to the nursing home of your choice!

Entertain at-risk kids with fun activities and creative gifts.

1. Gather a group of friends or employees.
2. Find a youth club or a community center for at-risk youth where you can host your activity.
3. Plan your activity – arts and crafts, sports, board games, story time, etc. are all good choices  
4. Gather necessary materials: snacks, school supplies, arts and crafts materials, or other small gifts that will bring a smile to the children’s faces.
5. Spend quality time with the kids!

Choose one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to promote in your local community

1. Browse through the list of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
2. Choose an SDG (or multiple!) that are closest to your heart and most relevant for your community
3. Do an activity raising awareness for the goal you chose and promoting different ways the community can make it better – for example:
   – for goal #3 – good health and well being – do a blood donation stand in cooperation with your local hospital
   – for goal #4 – quality education – host a book drive and donate the books to a local school or organization
   – for goal #15 – life on land – plant trees with your friends to fight deforestation
   The options are endless!

Clean your local beach and have a fun day out in the sun with your friends

1. Locate the closest beach to you
2. Grab a few friends, trash bags and gloves
3. Pick up any piece of trash that you see around the shore and make the visit happier for you, your friends, and everyone else there!

Place little houses for birds around your local part

1. Build birdhouses out of wood with a few friends (here is an easy guide)
2. Decorate the houses you built with friends by painting them and creating drawings or patterns
3. Place the birdhouses around your neighborhood or in a local park

Get your neighbors excited about recycling!

1. Gather a few bins or boxes and label each with a type of recyclable – paper, plastic, batteries, etc.
2. Place the bins in a central location in your neighborhood for everyone to use
3. Put up signs and posters telling your neighbors about the new recycling bins in place
4. Every once in a while, take what’s in the bins to a recycling factory or reach out to your municipality to help maintain the bins in the long-run!

Build an urban garden and add some color to your neighborhood! Plant vegetables for all to enjoy.

1. Make sure that there’s an intact irrigation infrastructure and someone who will be responsible to care for the garden year-round.
2. Purchase seeds, soil, and gardening tools.
3. Getting started:
   • Prepare the area: uproot weeds and old seedlings.
   • If the soil is hard or dry, water and wait for about 15 minutes.
   • Dig and turn over.
4. Plant seeds and water!

Create an interactive mural in different places around the world to bring people together.

1. Select different communities around the world you’d want to connect. These could be branches of a company, youth movements, schools etc.
2. Brainstorm together to find a topic all communities care about and design your mural accordingly. This could be anything – poverty, violence, environment – anything you have in common and care about.
3. Divide the mural into separate pieces and assign each community a part of the puzzle.
4. Each community paints their part of the mural, and you can piece the puzzle together to create an interactive piece of art that connects your communities regardless of race, language and culture.

An anonymous and meaningful way to donate helpful items to those in need

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1. Collect a box – a box can be used by one individual or you can work together with your family/group of friends to complete multiple Santa Boxes
2. Select a group of people you would like to give back to (ex: children’s hospital, women’s shelter, refugee center, etc.)
3. Decorate your box (this step is optional, but encouraged!)
4. Fill the box with 5 useful items that will bring a smile to the receiver’s face
5. Deliver or send your box to a location where it will be properly distributed

Help document the life stories of your neighborhood elderly people.

1. Find an elderly person with an interesting life story
2. Meet up with them, let them tell you their life’s story, what they’ve been through, their childhood etc.
3. Document the occasion – take photos or a video, write down the story or record the session
4. Create a printed version or a CD with the result to give them and their families as a present.

Is clean water not accessible in some parts of your country? If so, this is the project for you!

1. Grab a few friends who are up for a long journey
2. Fill up buckets of clean water to carry with you
3. Make a visit to a village where water isn’t accessible and bring them the water you have collected

Teach the older generation in your town how to use technology to their benefit

1. Find a group of elderly people who are usually far away from their families.
2. Bring them to a computer lab at your local community center or school
3. Connect each member of your team with a “student” or two to teach them basic use of computers and phones – that way they can be in touch with their family, surf the web and enjoy the benefits of technology.

Teach children to be kind to one another when in school

1. Use one hour of the school day on Good Deeds Day to teach students how to be nice to each other
2. Teach skills like listening, condemn violence among students, promote using a kind language etc.
3. For more ideas on what you could teach, consult this blog post

Bring joy to your local nursing home with a fun activity they can enjoy together.

1. Contact your local nursing home for their daily schedule, to see when they have time off for a fun activity.
2. Reach out to the staff members to ask what the residents of the home like most.
3. Bring a few friends together for a fun activity with the elderly, such as a knitting class, yoga class, interesting lecture or any other idea you have!

Collect second hand books and toys to donate

1. Put up a stand or a box in a public area where you’ll be collecting donations
2. Promote your event – post online, put signs up and let everyone know that you’ll be collecting books and toys for donation to children
3. Donate what you receive to a school, community center or children’s hospital of your choice.

Start a school garden for the children to tend to year round

1. Inside an elementary school, start a community garden with different flowers and vegetables
2. Teach the children how to tend to each of the plants
3. Divide the responsibility of taking care of the garden throughout the year between classes, groups or individuals
4. Have beautiful crops for the children and school staff to enjoy throughout the year!

Promote riding your bike rather than driving

1. Get together a group of friends and coworkers who like riding their bikes
2. Pledge to bike more often as a substitute for driving
3. Bike to work or school on Good Deeds Day as the first or pinnacle day of your group’s activity

Nothing like a group yoga class to get you in a happy mood!

1. Decide to host a free yoga class – or reach out to a certified instructor who can teach it for you
2. Let everyone know the time and place in which you’ll be meeting up and what they should bring (i.e. their own yoga mattress, comfortable clothes…)
3. Enjoy the happy vibes everyone has and the great start for your day!

Make the playground extra fun for local children to play!

1. Find a local playground in a public area, school or kindergarten, that could use a new coat of paint
2. Get a few friends together and make it more beautiful than ever by simply repainting in bright colors
3. Invite children to play in the new, refurbished playground!

All you need is a computer!

1. Download Zoom and invite people who would want to attend your trivia event. It can be anyone from family and friends who want to connect to co-workers who want to do a team-building.
2. You will of course need some trivia.  Make sure there is a balance of easy/medium/hard questions so that everyone can participate.
3. Have fun!

Support vulnerable populations by giving them "Happy Kits".

1.  Provide essential items to people who need it the most.
2. Choose a population of people you want to help in your community.
3. Distribute “Happy Kits” to them, whether it be food baskets, hygiene kits, or fun books and magazines.

Make awesome crafts and toys for your dogs.

1. Check out this fun awesome DIY Dog projects of homemade dog toys.
2. Browse through dog brain games and toys, DIY dog accessories ideas and projects to simple life hacks for dog owners, and DIY all-natural dog care.
3. Choose one, and get your craft on!

Put the world's most vulnerable people on the map.

1. Join the initiative to map uncharted areas with Missing Maps.
2. Help by mapping out areas where humanitarian organizations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable communities.
3. Plan risk reduction and disaster response activities that save lives.

Thank your delivery drivers and sanitation workers.

1. Leave treats and snacks outside your door for delivery drivers and sanitation workers for them to enjoy.
2. Show your appreciation for their hard work throughout the year!

Become a mentor for migrants and refugees.

1. If you are living in Canada, sign up for Skills for Change! 
2. Provide learning and training opportunities to migrants and refugees. 
3. Mentoring takes as little as 1 hour per week over 4 months and can happen anywhere in the city that is convenient for you, online and over the phone.

Share uplifting notes with your neighbors.

1. Put a surprise note in your neighbor’s mailbox wishing them uplifting thoughts. 
2. Tell your neighbor to pass an uplifting note on to the next neighbor.
3. Create a chain of kind notes throughout your neighborhood. 

Help put books into the hands of kids who need them.

1. Volunteer to help us raise awareness about Bridge of Books Foundation and encourage the spirit of reading in young people.
2. Sign up to help sort books for delivery to underserved children.
3. Support similar organizations in your community and provide books and other learning materials to youth.

Bring sight to blind and low-vision people.

1. Create a more accessible world for visibly impaired individuals and sign up for the free app, Be My Eyes.
2. Through a simple video, connect and assist blind and low-vision people, whether it be checking expiry dates, distinguishing colors, reading instructions, or navigating new surroundings.
3. Spread the word on your social media and invite your friends, family, or colleagues to join.

Enrich someone’s life through volunteering.

1. Join a volunteering hub VolunteerMatch, and create your volunteer profile. 
2. Stay connected in areas like health and medicine, education, and community building, right from your own home.   
3. Search through a wide range of virtual volunteering opportunities and find your perfect match! 

Send thank-you letters to your local healthcare professionals!

1. Support your local healthcare professionals and send a special note to care providers – and all the brave heroes on the front lines.
2. Pick a facility in your community and write a thank-you note to the healthcare professionals who work there. 
3. Share it on your social media to encourage your friends and family to do the same! 

Clean out your closet and donate your clothes!

1. Go through your closet and select the items you have not worn in the past year. 
2. Categorize the items and save them in different bags or boxes. 
3. Contact the closest charity and schedule a drop-off! 

Edit books for people with reading disabilities.

1. Sign up with BookShare.Org that offers thousands of eBooks, with just one click away. 
2. Make reading easier for people with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers.
3.  Customize their experience to suit their learning style and help find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

Become an online tutor instantly!

1. Start your application with TutorMe and choose the subject you want to teach.  
2. Connect with your students. Students can message you directly or TutorMe can match them directly to you.
3. Begin yor interactive lesson, with powerful features and tools that allow you to teach the best way you possibly can.

Work on your crisis management skills!

1. Sign up to become a volunteer at the Crisis Text Line. 
2. Register for a 30h course and become a crisis counselor. Crisis Counselors commit to volunteering 4 hours per week until 200 hours are reached.  
3. Upon completion, you can start counseling from anywhere in the world.  

Organize a Health Fair in your community

1. Decide which location you will choose (park, sports center, beach, etc.)
2. Call NGOs from your network to join with a stand that will make their work visible
3. Schedule the day
4. Organize a Zumba class
5. Think of visually appealing games about volunteering

Give away Eco Filters to vulnerable communities

1. Contact an NGO that donates filters in your region
2. Identify an educational institution for children and adolescents or a vulnerable community that does not have drinking water.
3. Contact a sponsor who is willing to finance water filters.