>>2863444Norway, but yes.
I live in a fairly small village, and some of the people living here are (relatively) poor from unlucky circumstances. Mostly their lowlife parents ruining their shit at every turn, but they've been given opportunities to make it out of the shit, and they're making it in their own way.
>>2863445>CouncilProbably my English being less than good. The city? Town hall? Anyway, they pay to get the tracks prepared like in pic related: Two tracks for classic skiing, space in the middle is for the people who use the skating technique, there's a big fuss every year because people walk in the tracks or dogs shit there, or people are braking in the skating areas.
>Red CrossThe national arm of the Red Cross does a lot of neat stuff, it's not all handing out space blankets, water and nutraloaf in refugee camps in terrible countries:
>Secondhand stores>Sports equipment rental>Children's free summer camp>Help phone lines>Youth meeting spots with free activities, help with homework, et c.>Visiting the lonely and elderly, sometimes with therapeutic dogs>Integration work with refugees>Visiting crooks in and after jail>Search and rescue corps that also helps out during big events