Pass it on
One person, three people.
Don't pay back the help you received — pass it on to the next three. One small experience can change someone's night.
Film
How one reply keeps going
Late at night, someone leaves a question. Someone in another city answers. Then that person helps three more.
One person, three people · 0:46
Dramatized scenes.
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The hour I spend with one person can become hundreds of thousands of hours, as long as each person passes it on.
The idea
Why it keeps going
Its own reward
No money changes hands. Helping is the reward itself, so the motivation doesn't run dry when a budget does.
You can see the ripple
After a meeting, both people leave a reflection. In what your partner shares back, you see where your hour landed.
Givers come first
When people who want to give first are at the center of a community, those who need deeper help are held up within it.
The numbers
Three at a time, twenty-one times
If one person helps three, and each of those three helps three more.
World population: about 8.2 billion
- People reached in this generation
- 59,049
- Hours of care in motion
- 88,572
- If each person gives one hour.
- The hour you gave to start it
- 1 hour
This assumes everyone passes it on. But it always starts with one person.
This is arithmetic, not a forecast.
On Clobo
What “three people” means on Clobo
Local missions
See the challenges in your city and join in as much as you can.
Explore local challengesRooms to solve together
Gather with people facing the same question and find a way forward.
Find a shared spaceShare your experience
Leave what you lived and learned, so it helps the next person take their step.
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