How to help poor people ?

[Harry124]

Hello friends
Please give me the answer.

[orlandowilliams]

There are many ways to help the poor first thing which is most important that we should donate money. There are several organizations receive money for poor people. You can also grow vegetable and fruits for those and provide them.

[amarowsky]

One of my roommates and I were talking the other day. He said he saw a bum next door at 7-11. He tried at the bum and told him to leave. I have seen that homeless man once before,I believe nearly a half year ago or later. What I didn't know is that the danger room mate of mine has seen him before too. I guess probably around the same time I first saw him. But his earlier encounter with him went different. He saw the bum and was asked to spare food or money, so my friend gave him food. I guess he gave him a decent amount of food, several cans of soup, some fruits, and a large bag of chips, but then he told the bum after giving him this stuff, that if he accepted it all, he had to leave and if he ever saw him back he would call the cops inn him.

We live in a pretty decent sized city outside of Detroit. It is very very unusual to see homeless in my citymy city has a very low crime rate, low violence, and general demographic is middle class whites. So seeing the disheveled homeless person is very very rare where I live, even though if you drive for twenty minutes east you can see them everywhere.

My comment is, how to you actually go about getting someone of the street and help or entice them to work and become independent? What would be the first step? What would be the easiest step that some one could contribute?

[amarowsky]

Giving money does help, but for many capable poor it merely feeds a dependency.how do you nurture that person to break that dependency and start them on carrying for themself.anyone have any success story on that?

[jpg7n16]

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

-Matt 7:12

[SavingSweetOneL]

Like it has been suggested, donate to organizations that help the poor. They have trained and expereinced social workers, (with interest and heart.), to helpn the client.

If encountering someone one-on-one on the street, I tend to give what change I have, or offer food at a local resturant. (This is very rare.)

You can also carry around with you, updated copies of resources in your community, to give to them. Places such as Goodwill, Salvarion Army, food pantries, and so forth. Many churchs have such lists, and so you can obtain such a list for copying porposes from them.

Also, when you are going through your things, you can donate them to local charity thirft stores. Mine material donations are usually divided between GoodWill and the local domestic violence shelter. Especially now, since my church has stopped having fundraising rummage sales. (Too much work, we are all 10 years older, at least. LOL)

I hope this helps.

SweetOneL

[snafu]

A huge percentage of homeless are actually mentally ill, off medication and on their own to survive. In grans day they were housed and cared for in an institution but it was expensive and not very successful so they were mostly drugged. the 2nd largest percentage have alcohol and drug problems. They can't hold down a job, all their time and effort is devoted to getting alcohol and/or drugs.

The smallest percentage just lack money to pay rent. A high percentage of that group have jobs but they don't necessarily make enough at minimum wage or get enough hours to consistently pay rent. There are a large number of charitable organizations that seek your help. If you can donate a few hours regularly, that is even more valuable than money donations. Churches and targeted groups do their best to help like those who distribute bagged sandwiches & fruit juice late evening to those who fear shelters.

You need to check out some organization because most of the money they raise goes to promote the organization and their executive; very little reaches the people they purport to help.

[GrimJack]

There is no "the poor"; there are individuals who got where they are in their own way. If I want to help an individual, I give him or her a bus ticket; if I want to help the individuals in a collective way, I donate to Northwest Harvest and Planned Parenthood - I give equally to both. I encourage anyone who has a fruit tree in their yard that produces more than they can use to call your local equivalent of 'City Harvest' who will come by and glean fruit from your trees for distribution to hungry people.

[Bryan Cranston]

Donating money is simple and easy. However, this is a different matter from if if the charitable entity you support is any good, and if such funds are used to aid the poor indeed.

More important though is promoting as well as you can those policies that will aid the general population so that more employment opportunities and a better living standard can come about.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

There is no "the poor"; there are individuals who got where they are in their own way. If I want to help an individual, I give him or her a bus ticket; if I want to help the individuals in a collective way, I donate to Northwest Harvest and Planned Parenthood - I give equally to both. I encourage anyone who has a fruit tree in their yard that produces more than they can use to call your local equivalent of 'City Harvest' who will come by and glean fruit from your trees for distribution to hungry people.

GrimJack, I still YQYQR,2, and so appreciate this. "The poor"-- as if they are a collective thing instead of individuals.

It is hard for me to imagine not having ideas what to do for a poor person. Don't you know any poor people personally? Don't you at least rub elbows with some poor people? If so, what are their particular needs and how can you help? Isn't that something between yourself and the other person?

Sure there are times when problems are so widespread or systemic that some larger scale actions are helpful. Is that what you are asking about, OP?

We cannot give you the answer because there are many answers. And --oh, dear, sorry for the drama, but-- there are many answers and there are no answers.

You could look at the link in my signature, for an idea, too.

[AccountantSalary]

I think donating to charities that help the poor is one way to go. They can multiply your contribution many times over because they know what strategies work to help the poor.

[Ramose]

If you have extra money that you can donate to a charity then that is a good way to do it. If you don't have the money to spare then maybe you could volunteer?

[bjl584]

Short term you can give your time and money to charity. You can give food. You can give clothing.

Long term is a little more complicated. At some point people need to learn to help themselves, and not everyone has the ability or the desire to do so.

[amarowsky]

Poverty & Homelessness Volunteer Opportunities

pretty helpful with lots of quick donation ideas (ones that require little or no time) and longer term dedication ideas. Honestly by actually spending some time to help out would be rewards on all ends, I'm strongly considering putting in an hour or two in the future.

[susie michelle]

Especially over the holidays, we like to come up with something we can do as a family. Sometimes we volunteer, sometimes we raise money or just set aside some to donate. We try to leave it up to the kids to come up with a cause they want to support each season, but it's often a family decision.