E4WSA Social Actions

The chosen social action was to set awareness for E4WSA (Essentials for Women South Australia) which is a non-profit organisation that aids for homeless women who don’t have access everyday hygienic products. I was in a 6-member group and our main goal was to promote the organisation and hopefully get a few donations of feminie hygienic products such as tampons, pads and clean underwear from the public to give to the organisation.

At the start of the social action, as a group we sat down and 3 people of the 5 (at the time) contributed to the discussion of ideas. I created a checklist for the group and jobs were allocated to each member. 4 out of the 6 dot points in the checklist were actually completed. I specifically had the job of asking the library for permission to hold the donation bin, after this failed I then asked student services at Seaford Secondary College with one other student. I allocated jobs for the group report, a paragraph for each person. I
One of those was that the library was unable to be the drop off point for the bin, so I had to solve it by asking student services at Seaford Secondary College. Another issue that I came across while working in this group is that the group did not work that well together or separately, even after being allocated jobs. Due to this I ended up writing the group evaluation myself, collecting the evidence and notes to back up our social action. I felt like I was also acting very bossy as I was the one allocated tasks for the other members to do, such as when the group report was being written, the members left it all to the day before the submission date for some to even start and send in their paragraphs. I felt like I was also the leader of the group as I was always sending out emails and asking the members to ensure that they were doing the tasks that they had to do to successfully get complete and contribute to the social