Helping the POOR 1

Do you like to help ‘the POOR’? Would you help them if you have the facility?

There are plenty of individuals and organizations to help ‘the POOR’.

If you ask a child (of age around 10 in Kerala, India), ‘what do you want to do for the society, when you have enough money?’ the most heard answer is –at least from my experience-

‘I want to serve the society and want to help the poor’

Which immediately evince the culture especially morality or ethics of the society.

(It also shows the general economic, political and cultural condition of the same society.-still another question; where their morality does go off on growing up?!!!-)

Along with this attitude we’ve also heard attitudes like ‘regardless of his status, he inquired for help’; in any popular movie, novel or in your daily life.

Which is also a part of the same culture…

So we now have two cultural situations

·         Helping ‘the POOR’ (and we think it is piousness)

·         Seeking help regardless one’s ‘STATUS’ (and we think it is shameful)

When we help ‘the poor’ are we empowering them to stand in life by themselves or making them feel ‘we are helpless, and those kind people help us.’

Aren’t we creating a bunch of people who are ‘helpless’, who do not have a better ‘status’, who think ‘I deserve to be helped since I’m poor’…

Roughly 1500 beggars are there in Cochin (Kerala, India) itself (in Kerala it’s become a business. You can find several child beggars in here. But notably hardly there is any Keraliite!)

I’m not saying you shouldn’t give money to a child who needs money to pay his/her school fee but you don’t have to give money for no reason- supposing  he/she will pay the school fee.