Is there anyone out there who still believes in helping needy children and families?

I am a home health aid, I care for a woman. This woman's husband is often sick. Sometimes I have to care for him as well. This woman's daughter is on drugs and waiting for a bed in rehab. Sometimes I have to care for her as well. This woman is raising her three grandsons, OFTEN I care for them. Sometimes they have problems making ends meet. I bring them food. I wrote to her son when he was in jail. I wrote to my brother and sister when they were in jail. I headed a ladies auxilliary and in November we provided thanksgiving dinners to the needy in the area free of charge. I could go on, but you get the picture. I am only one person. With all the billions of people on this earth, I think it is safe to say that there are others who are good samaritans.

There are lots of charities and non-profit organizations that work to help hurting people all over the world. I do lots of volunteer work with places like habitat for humanity, meals on wheels, and the local charity to help these type of people.

You have to make those choices for yourself. What about people learning to fend for themselves or what about learning to wait to have children til after one has a career well underway and can afford to make it with or with a spouse especially if there are children involved?

Few people I think. I was thinking the other day I want to declare war to the world, to the suffering of the children in Africa and other places, to the raping of women, to the killings in many places, to the stupid people who use fur and savagely skin alive different types of animals, to the idiots who enjoy taking life from animals for sport, to the corrupt, those who corrupt little girls or boys, and sell drugs, to those who lower an honest man's courage, and who has troubling emerging in a world surrounded by vagabonds and robbers. I want to declare war to all of that.....Yet, how do I do this? I study engineering, and its pretty much math and programming, analysing of signals, and many other things. When do I tell this to someone? And who do I tell it to? Do I just go to a group of students and scream to them, w_t_f? Why don't you do anything???? Do I just jump out of my house and suddenly yell to the world???? Help the needed, etc?

The honest truth, I have been thinking since many years ago, I wanted to go into politics, and I'm sure I can help there.

The thing is, it is here to help and think of this things, they are overshadowed in the course of life. For example, I have a project I have to do now, so I'm not thinking of helping anyone until I finished it.

Well, then I come to my house, and find one of my friends. He wants to go watch a game or something, or eat some fries, so when would I think about helping the poor kids with swollen stomach in africa?

Proximity might have to do a lot with it, and i am sure, if I were reminded of the suffering closer, I would contend with it much easily.

Other than this, it is sometimes hard for me to express myself, and I think is so too for others. I want to help everybody, I want to make sure the guy next to me finds the eraser he is searching for in his backpack, and that the chinese girl who I saw so seriously sitting down on a booth in a International Students festival doesn't feel bad, and feel good. I want to lend anything I have to whomever needs it, but how easy is this? I want to make my professor understand he can be my friend, and I think my proffesor has tried with many students to be just that, and he has failed. He is too smart, clumsy at approach too. There are many boundaries that stop us, and many other people from doing things. Eventhough I believe no one should help anyone if he doesn't care, I think most of the people would help, and if they don't good for them to. Actually I would like to not care for so many people, so that I could live a better life, yet my mother did not teach me to be like that, so that I have to stand and be patient with people, and feel bad if I don't.

Well, many times, helping others is just about being confortable expressing ourselves. When you want people to go out and help the single mother, there is a breach they have to make. Either enter there property, or enter their personal life, and territory. And what about the african children, dying. Well, it is not the same sending money overseas, although it might help, eventually the everyday day in our lives is either too busy, or either 'out of sync' from this other rreality. If I'm eating burgers with my friends in a bar or fishing, I'm not going to be in the other world.

If for example we had a society which instead of watching football on sundays, watch the "help channel" or something like that (i just made up), then maybe people would help everyday. But society consumes us, and people busy their minds with the information that enters their brains. It is difficult to help because of many reasons.

There is also progress. Humanity and society approve of progress, work and richness. The slacker, those who do not make a living, are seen as vagabonds. Our society promotes hard workers, and people who make an effort. Through this we stop the creation of many of the needed people, yet it also busies our lives. Or those girls who are started to build a family, and need to take care of a baby, how in h_ll would they be thinking about helping anyone else?

Another part of the answer, is that we need to help ourselves.

Lastly I'm ashamed, well not really, maybe much less than ashamed (is there a word?) about this writing. It is disorderly and the ideas are floating all around/ yet im sure it might bring in some perspective, so it is not so bad.

Personally, I recomend helping anyone.

Everyone who donates their old clothes. Like me.