The World Is Suffering And I Want To Help?~?~?

Question

I really want to help support Breast Cancer and Poverty in Africa. I feel like I'm doing nothing, heling no one, being part of the world which just fills it up.

I need to start small, not rush- I'm only in High School! Does anyone know how I can start? I've thought of leaflets and badges throughout school but how will it help? I could sell things and send the money but what after that?

Please help I really want ideas.

Thanks so much!

500,000 children die of hunger A YEAR.

Answer 1

Start in your area.. find your local underpriveleged kids and start a feeding scheme or somthing similar. You cannot save the entire world, but if we each helped just one person out - this world would be a much better place

Answer 2

Think globally act locally has a lot of meanings. I too would like
to help with the poverty in Africa, we keep giving food and
monies to these overseas charities and it is all intercepted by
the people who caused the problem in the first place. I don't
want to sound negative, but charity does begin at home, you
should try to find something closer to home and help local
people there are millions of children here who are in the same
situation. There are even old folks who need a hand, call your
local women and childrens shelters they'll be more than happy
to accept money, time and anything else you have to give. Our
U.S. government is helping to create poverty in other countries
and not take care of its own. We will soon become one of those
poverty stricken countries we're "helping".

Answer 3

Take heart, the efforts of individuals DO make a difference over time. In the mid-1980's, the world-wide estimate of death by starvation was 40,000 per day. Now the same agencies that supported that number say it is nearer 25,000 deaths per day, a drop of 15,000 each day in just 20 years. That is significant.

Developing countries often have a tension between shared ethics necessary for a thriving market economy, and personal greed (on all levels). Education, ethics training, and courageous public leaders who have complete accountability to the public (and not just in it to line their own pockets) is the key to turnaround. It takes time--generations--to rid systemic, generational ways of thinking.

You already have a personal sensitivity toward these issues. Keep educating yourself. Investigate agencies that provide not only immediate relief, but who are in countries for the long-haul to help people beat their poverty cycles. Don't rule out religious-based relief organizations; religions often take a beating in the forum of public discourse, but most of them are making huge impact in the places they serve.

Finally, I leave you a story. A boy walking with his grandfather on a beach, and hunreds if not thousands of fish are beaching themselves. The boy begins picking them up, one by one, throwing them back into the water. The grandfather laughs and says "what difference will that make--there's thousands of fish here! What you're doing doesn't matter!" The boy replies, "It matters to that one," and throws another back in the water, "and it matters to that one" and throws another, "and that one...."

Answer 4

Go to someone you know, who sells ribbons or things like that for Breast cancer, or Aids.
Or look on the Internet for local charities, and volunteer to help them.
Volunteer work is good, because you give time and effort, which is sometimes better than giving money or food.

Answer 5

Do what I do...join World Vision
Try www.worldvision.co.za
I hope there's an SA one!! I'm already sponsoring 4 kids!!

Hope for the best for you!!