What can you do or contribute in your own little way as a simple citizen of the country to eradicate poverty?

Question

I need your answers simple but from the heart. If you're a student how can you help? If you're an employee how can you help? Be realistic please.

Answer 1

Take ACTION. It is so easy to help. I cook for the homeless two or three days a week. You can volunteer to help at: shelters for battered women, the homeless, food shelves. When I was younger I worked with many church groups spending my summers building homes for the poor in Appalachia, now you Habitat for Humanity.

Just sitting back and talking does nothing, raising $100 does nothing YOU must act!

Answer 2

oh..
you're all such a nice persons...
things are totally different in poor countries.. poor peoples...
forget all the good of the world can brings... most of them are only trying to survive...
forget the options like would you prefer this or that ? for them sometimes to able to eat once a day is already the best...

Answer 3

I believe the poor need not just hand outs but a hand up, to help them rise above their situations. Therefore I encourage young people to make higher education their number one top goal, as through this they will increase their earning power and obtain a competitive edge over others.

I tell them about the WIA program which is offered in every state (through the state employment office) which purpose is to assist the poor to obtain higher education. This program offers financial assistance with college tuition, books, transportation and meals while one is a student, in addition to career counseling, etc.

Additionally, trade schools such as for cosmetology, massage therapy, barbering and other skills are included in the wide variety of educational institutions these WIA participants may be eligible for.

I also tell young people about the National Guard Youth Challenge Program which is in many states, and is one way for a young person to obtain self-discipline, to obtain their G.E.D., to attend trade training i.e. carpentry, heavy construction equipment operation, etc. There is hardly any cost to participants and it has a high success rate for youths who are at risk to drop out of high school as well as who have found no direction in life. It is a voluntary program and very dynamic and life-changing.

Lastly, I tell people about college grants and scholarships available to students, and that if one has a disability or is in a minority group or child of a deceased veteran, that there may be scholarships specifically intended for them. It takes great effort to obtain these but if a person is determined to rise out of poverty and improve his lot in life, he will experience success and it's rewards.

My phillosophy is to share what I have with others when I am working and able to afford to do so, as many people in the past have helped me. What comes around goes around, and I believe if you do good to others, it'll come back to you.

So if I see someone down on his luck i.e. a vagabond who obviously has nothing, I occasionally will give them a $20 dollar bill. Because since God has blessed me, I believe it is important to share my blessing with others.

I try not to hoard material things and I purge my possessions frequently and donate clothing and other household goods frequently to Goodwill and other charitable organizations. Goodwill employs the handicapped and others who have difficulty finding employment elsewhere.

Some complain their prices are high, but after personally coming to know some of the handicapped clients they employ, I understand now how they benefit from people who donate items to them. I also shop at Goodwill, Salvation Army and other thrift shops which in turn helps support these organizations.

Lastly, I try not to judge or condemn others who are less fortunate than I, and rather, pray for them that their lives will be comforted and improved in some way. Sometimes just seeing someone pass by me who looks troubled or down and out and praying a brief, immediate prayer I believe is of help to them.

thanks for the thought provoking question...

Answer 4

You can help out in soup kitchens, you can work local charities, food drives, meals on wheels. There are many such programs in most communities. If your community doesn't have a program, perhaps you can start one. Most churches have such programs if your community doesn't.

Answer 5

Tithe. Churches, missionaries, and other religious groups have been helping people longer and usually with a better success rate.

Answer 6

Offer words of encouragement ... a little inspiration goes a long way.

Answer 7

Old chinese proverb that we've forgotten, give a man a fish, and you will need to give him a fish forever, teach a man how to fish, and he will feed himself.

www.peace-purpose-
prosperity.com

Look at the graph on this web-site.

Answer 8

I’m sick of the gross mismanagement and wasted money ideas from our government officials. I think a giant dose of common sense needs to be injected into the political arena. I have a common sense platform I think will appeal to all the average Americans that are as sick of the phony self important politicians as I am.

Would a platform like this make you vote for me?

1st90 days by ExOrder
Establish Earth Rights for all of America like in Alaska
End income taxes;fund the Gov the right way, not on our backs
End tax paper work for citizens, not business
Balance the budget, officials are not paid till it’s done
Regular people for elected officials, no lawyers or rich
End lobbyists, take the money out of politics
Make graft illegal, mandatory jail time
Close the DOE, save the money
Take the Gov out of the schools, PTA run save money
Set Iraq’s oil to pay for the war, make an exit plan with the military
Prisoners work for jail costs, not us, save the money
Make foreign tax cheats pay, tariff goods @retail every container
Register illegals, get them on the tax roles not us
Private SS accounts, makes us millionaires, no gov access to money
After90 days by ExOrder
Build renewable power, make millions of high wage jobs
End Nuclear power
Build electric powered roads, make millions more jobs
Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks
End dependence on foreign oil
Clean the polluted water with clean electric power
Return America to 50% of world’s economy

Alaska pays with an Earth Rights fund



The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.

In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.

Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.

Kuwait pays even it’s indirectly after the gulf war losses

Hoover Institution
Kuwait:

Democracy, Kuwait Style
Peter Berkowitz



It’s not that the woman question was the only issue faced by voters. From the owner and editor in chief of Kuwait’s largest newspaper, to the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Company, to the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, our interlocutors argued that the Kuwaiti economy is stagnating and that the remedy is privatization. This is a difficult proposition, however, in a country where 90 to 95 percent of the labor force is employed by the government, which generally pays more than the private sector. And designing institutions to create the right incentives will be difficult in a country whose oil wealth supports a massive welfare state with no taxes that generously funds its citizens’ health, education, and housing needs.


Dubai pays
I’ve read Norway does something like this
I’ve read Nigeria is working on a fund to pay the people also

Why can’t your state pay you?

With the resources of the feds and Earth Rights for all of America, they can pay 50 times the $1000 Alaska pays their residents!

The dems and reps have all the power and all the control.
Shouldn’t they bear all the responsibility for their mismanagement?

It is time to take America back for the people.

VOTE! Vote for anyone as long as they’re not a democrat or republican!

If our founding father were alive today.
They would lay siege to DC tar and feather ALL the officials.
Then hang them on the steps for all to see the consequences of screwing Americans!!

If we continue to ask for truth, then refuse to listen.
Mankind will forever, be doomed to destruction.

There must be security for all, or none are secure!
This requires losing no freedoms, only to act responsibly!


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