Norwegians will describe this as a typical Norwegian thing to have. The word was used to unite the people of Norway to cooperate and shut down public activities to fight the pandemic of 2020. Serbia (Serbian: ) is an old Serbian tradition of communal self-help in villages. It was a request for help in labor-intensive activities, like harvesting wheat, building a church or repairing village roads. The work was entirely voluntary and no compensation, except possibly meals for workers, was expected. North America Cherokee (Cherokee: ) is a term used in the Cherokee language which means 'working together' or 'cooperative labor' within a community. Historically, the word referred to a labor gang of men and/or women working together for projects such as harvesting crops or tending to gardens of elderly or infirm tribal members. The word was derived from the Cherokee word for 'bread', which is . In recent years the Cherokee Nation tribal government has promoted the concept of . The GaDuGi Health Center is a tribally run clinic in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the capital of the Cherokee Nation. The concept is becoming more widely known. In Lawrence, Kansas, in 2004 the rape crisis center affiliated with the University of Kansas, adopted the name the Gadugi Safe Center for its programs to aid all people affected by sexual violence. Gadugi is the name of a font included with Microsoft Windows 8 that includes support for the Cherokee language along with other languages of the Americas such as Inuktitut. Latin America Dominican Republic . Haiti or in Haitian Creole. Mexico Tequio. Zapoteca Quechua or (Quechua or Kichwa, Hispanicized , ) is a type of traditional communal work in the Andes in favor of the whole community (ayllu). Participants are traditionally paid in kind. is still practiced in indigenous communities in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile, especially among the Quechua and the Aymara. Pre-Incaic Andean Before the Inca conquest of around 1450, the Aymara kingdoms practiced two forms of communal work – Ayni, which refers to work undertaken for one's own local community, or Ayllu with many tasks subdivided according to gender roles (Chachawarmi), and Minka, which refers to communal work taking place across different Ayllus such as building work or work undertaken during seasonal migrations such as the Aymaras from the Altiplano i.e. areas of the Andes mountains at too high an altitude for agriculture, migrating with their camelids to