Helping the needy

[Corzhens]

This thread if not about direct charity like giving alms. In fact, we don't give to beggars in the streets. We don't give to solicitors eithers. But we help the need in our own way. We hired a housemaid to stay in the house when we go to work. After some time, the housemaid said that she has a cousin who wants to work like her. Okay, we hired her. Now we have 2 housemaids who clean the house, handle our 3 dogs and keep our house safe. Aside from that, we also have a laundrywoman who takes care of our clothes twice a week. Instead of letting the housemaids to the laundry, it is the official work of the laundrywoman. Relatives and friends say that we are spending too much on those people who work for us. They didn't know that it was our way of helping people who deserve of our h help.

 

[chrissky]

everyone has there own way of charity or giving back to the community, sometimes instead of giving people on the street money, you can give them food

 

[David S]

I usually help out in the food kitchens, at Christmas time and other holidays around the year. It's nice to give back to people. I also give old clothes away to charities and other things, to help them. I don't live giving things to beggars you can't tell whether their genuine or not, I really don't want to help someone's crack fund.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

My family generally won't give money to beggars, as we don't know if they are legitimate about needing the money, or if they just are doing that to feed an addiction of some sort. Though, if someone is generally in need of help, we will help as we are able. Infact, my grandmother on my mother's side used to bring the homeless and needy into the home to work on the family farm and would let them have a place to sleep, till those people had a job and enough money to no longer need help to live somewhere.

 

[TDK]

My family generally won't give money to beggars, as we don't know if they are legitimate about needing the money, or if they just are doing that to feed an addiction of some sort.

I've been in the same situation plenty of times. If they're asking for money for food, rather than give it to them I'll ask them what they're interested in having, and if they're being truthful about actually being hungry, I'll ask them to give me fifteen or twenty minutes, depending where we're at, and I'll go pick them up a lunch and then bring it to them. I've never straight up given money to anyone asking for it because as you've said, who knows where that money is truly going and I don't want to help feed any possible addiction.

 

[Mozzie]

I think any way to help the needy is a great thing, it is the purpose to life in some respect, to look after one another the best way we can

 

[Lord Saru]

I treat people for free every Sundays at my home. I dont consult at my home on other days due to my hospital schedule.

 

[Varlot]

My family supports (through a foundation) a 8 year old in South-Sudan, paying for her school tuition and supplies, as well as paying a small part of what it costs for infrastructure in her village (clean water sources etc). Other than that we have supported a family of one mother + 6 children in Romania since 1991. It started with my dad buying them furniture, food, giving them cash when they had debt. Since then we've helped them out economically.