‘I have helped people to talk to the poor and not just about the poor’
(Mother Teresa)
That is the first and most basic reason why we should help the poor - because they are fellow human beings, flesh and blood people like ourselves. We cannot turn a blind eye. In this global village, our planet, we are realizing more and more that we are mutually dependent. We are like a global family, although a dysfunctional one.
Do we have any idea what it means to be poor? Poverty diminishes people. Extreme poverty is deeply demeaning. You have seen people competing with dogs on the rubbish heaps of many of the large cities of impoverished lands.
You may have seen the poor, but have you ever imagined how it must feel not to be able to provide food for your hungry children; not to have a shirt on your back; not to be able to help your dying child because you lack access to medicine; not to be able to send your child to school when you know that some education is the only hope of success for that child and for your family.
Despite the phenomenal economic growth of many Asian countries, there are still 800 million lacking basic human needs like food, shelter, work and minimal health care.
Every human being deserves:
Another reason why we must help the poor is the need for social justice - one of the great themes of humankind’s thinking about society, and a divine requirement of all religions. There is injustice when a small fraction of the population grows richer year by year, while others ache and suffer for lack of the most basic necessities. There is injustice when there is gross inequality in how a nation’s resources are distributed.
Social justice is a divine requirement of all religions
It has been said of Mother Teresa that she merely loves, feeds, clothes the poor and treats the dying and does not provide them with the means to fight for their rights - that she treats the symptoms only, and not the root causes. But you are. You are the people who can tackle root causes, who can ensure that economic plans are linked to socially just development strategies, who can play a more balanced, positive, proactive role to sustain and develop your nation’s social, human and natural resources.
Help the helpless, homeless, rootless & sick poor people. Let them live besides you. Give them shelter, food, treatment & security. Your little help can give them strength to survive. Help a little - Donate Now.
(Mother Teresa)
That is the first and most basic reason why we should help the poor - because they are fellow human beings, flesh and blood people like ourselves. We cannot turn a blind eye. In this global village, our planet, we are realizing more and more that we are mutually dependent. We are like a global family, although a dysfunctional one.
Do we have any idea what it means to be poor? Poverty diminishes people. Extreme poverty is deeply demeaning. You have seen people competing with dogs on the rubbish heaps of many of the large cities of impoverished lands.
You may have seen the poor, but have you ever imagined how it must feel not to be able to provide food for your hungry children; not to have a shirt on your back; not to be able to help your dying child because you lack access to medicine; not to be able to send your child to school when you know that some education is the only hope of success for that child and for your family.
Despite the phenomenal economic growth of many Asian countries, there are still 800 million lacking basic human needs like food, shelter, work and minimal health care.
Every human being deserves:
- A reasonable standard of living
- A reasonable standard of accommodation
- An opportunity to use his abilities in satisfying work.
Another reason why we must help the poor is the need for social justice - one of the great themes of humankind’s thinking about society, and a divine requirement of all religions. There is injustice when a small fraction of the population grows richer year by year, while others ache and suffer for lack of the most basic necessities. There is injustice when there is gross inequality in how a nation’s resources are distributed.
Social justice is a divine requirement of all religions
It has been said of Mother Teresa that she merely loves, feeds, clothes the poor and treats the dying and does not provide them with the means to fight for their rights - that she treats the symptoms only, and not the root causes. But you are. You are the people who can tackle root causes, who can ensure that economic plans are linked to socially just development strategies, who can play a more balanced, positive, proactive role to sustain and develop your nation’s social, human and natural resources.
Help the helpless, homeless, rootless & sick poor people. Let them live besides you. Give them shelter, food, treatment & security. Your little help can give them strength to survive. Help a little - Donate Now.
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