Not waiting for the government

We have three overly large gum trees in our garden. They were in need of a severe pruning involving some major boughs, so I called in the team who have previously worked for us. They turned up yesterday, the whole family, plus some new Samoan immigrants. They must have come from church, worked very cheerfully most of the day and did a fabulous job. As we paid we were delighted to find out they were donating the proceeds to their church as a fund-raiser, which is building a drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit. They weren't waiting for "the government to do something". These are the very people New Zealand needs lots of.