Ways to Help Poor People

There are a lot of different reasons and places you can volunteer at, such as the soup kitchen, highway cleanup crews, and the neighborhood watch, not only because it affects you directly but also because it helps the community immensely.

Community service, as I have come to learn, is all about taking the initiative to help someone in need, no matter their situation. As the verse Matthew 25:35 says above, it is our job to share God’s love through serving those who are hurting right in front of us. These people are strangers, we may not know them, but that does not mean they should not be helped. Over the course of my life I have had the opportunity to participate in a multitude of service projects, but the one I am most passionate about is the Harvesters Community Food Network.

Giving families food that are in need is another great way to change the community in how they shop for food. Many families need it especially during the holiday season or just in general. For example, I am in the spanish club organization and we went in January of this year we went to this house where a single mother lived with seven of her kids in an apartment which we did not get to meet but the lady besides her told us. We went to this other house and a guy was blind so the wife worked two jobs with three kids.That made us all reflect on how much more we can do and give back.

In conclusion, hunger in America is at an all time high due to poverty and the economy. The increasingly high number of starving children has gone up over the past years and needs to be stopped. There are government programs set up to help stop hunger in American, such as, SNAP Food Stamps and WIC. We can get involved by volunteering with Feeding America or other non-for-profit organizations set for feeding the hungry. Food donations and monetary donations have always been a great way to help out for those who don’t have the time to donate.

Words provoke preconceived ideas and images in the mind, when it comes to a situation like poverty these preconceived notions can have undesirable and unintended consequences. Diana George examines the semantics and the imagery of the word poverty in her article titled “Changing the Face of Poverty; Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation. While also addressing the issue of the perception poverty and what someone in poverty truly looks like (676). Prof. George is arguing that organizations like Habitat for Humanity, which are created to help people in poverty actually perpetuate the wrong image of what someone in poverty looks like (678). Most organizations created to help those in need, especially those in the US tend to portray poverty as what is seen and thought of as living conditions in Third World countries (683). In reality, poverty is all around each and every one of us in this country on a daily basis, and people might not always recognize it for what it is (681,682). Furthermore, the majority of people living in poverty in the United States do not live like or look like someone living in a Third World country. But in reality they are still living in poverty nonetheless (682,683). Organizations that portray people living in poverty here in the US as totally devastated and completely impoverished are doing a disservice to the people they are attempting to help. Consequently, by doing this they are giving a limiting idea of what someone living in poverty

By having your friends and family donate canned goods, you can make a difference. If a person skips the coffee shop for one day, that money could go towards giving a hungry family a meal. By creating a food drive, others can help these families as well. There are countless ways to through a food drive. You can have a competition with your friends to see who can gather the most food. You can collect donations from your coworkers. You can even have a gift party for your friends to come in with the canned goods. Be creative and have fun while helping fight hunger. By collecting food, you will provide a meal to those who do not have a guaranteed chance of eating. To create a food drive, visit the link

Anne Frank once said, “no one has ever become poor by giving.” “Giving” incorporates so many things: giving money, giving food, giving clothes, giving gifts, etc. Personally, I see time as the most significant thing one can give to others. Volunteering is, at its core, giving your time to help others. Volunteering has always been a big part of my life; at a younger age I would help the ladies in the cafeteria serve lunch after Sunday school and clean up the main hall afterwards, in high school I was in organizations that presented me with ample opportunities to volunteer, and presently I still manage to volunteer every semester in college.

Imagine living on the streets. Knowing that you can not provide enough for your family. Barely hanging on. About 50,144,955 people in America feel this everyday. These people are in poverty, the state of being extremely poor. This one issue is what is holding us back as a whole. It needs to be eradicated in order to move forward, but we need to start small. We need to start in our state, Connecticut. There are many things that can be done to stop poverty, and it needs to start now. Poverty is holding America and the world back, in order to move forward together, it needs to be put under control through giving to the poor and getting voices heard.

The Food Bank volunteering helped me become a better person. Before this program, I didn’t really value of the food that I have every day or the food that I through it away because I did not like it. I did not realize there are many hungry people, right in our community, go to bed at night and their stomach are empty. After helping out at the Food Bank and talking to Sydney, I stopped eating food for fun. Now, I only eat what I need and keep the rest for next meal , instead of buy everything or coke more than what I need and ended up throwing half of the meal away just because I couldn’t eat it all. Also, after going to the Food Bank a few times, I learn that small things in life can make big differences. For example, MSU Food Bank is collecting

I said this before and I’ll say it again, I want to help and also everyone else who cares about the people in need, starving or not. A brilliant man, Buzz Aldrin, came up with this quote, “ If we can conquer space, we can conquer child hunger.” If we can travel to the moon, explore space, make drones to receive information, we can definitely defeat child hunger. I challenge everyone to think about anyone but themselves and help them out in a way that will make a positive difference in their

For most, lending a hand to someone only really counts for family members and friends. A person never really thinks about all the outside people in the world that need a little help. When the holiday season comes around people may not have the money to feed their families or buy Christmas gifts for their kids. Many agencies broadcast on television how to help these families, not just in your state but around the world. Like most, I for one have never volunteered, but I have donated. For a person that is looking to start volunteering, a little research should be done on different places. I for one like The Salvation Army as an organization. I always see them around the holiday season outside with the bells and red pails. Before volunteering

There are many different types of sacrifice, be it time, money, physical possessions, or even just a comfort. You can donate to charities that help those who need it. Everyday people make sacrifices, even some they don't realize. One such sacrifice is helping someone do a job without expecting pay: they don't have to help, and they sacrifice free time by helping. Another you give to a food drive, you are sacrificing a possession, in order to help those who need it. When people donate to a blood drive, they help people who might need it in the future by sacrificing the time to go there. These are just a few of the types of sacrifice.

In this world, poverty exist, even to this today. Some people in this world are extremely fortunate to have a lot of money or even have enough to be able to support themselves and their family. However, some people do not have the money to get necessities such as food, shelter and water. People should work to reduce poverty because it can help a lot of people who can not get necessities, and this will help people realize that it is important to help people out to make their life a little easier. People who a lot of money should donate as much as they can to programs to help out not people within their own countries. An example of this is if someone makes over a million dolars a year, then they can donate to a group of people that can buy some

There have many attempts to solve the problem of world poverty in recent years. Average people have begun to care and are willing to help with the age old problem. However, the world is making little progress toward the eradication of poverty. Many of the things we are doing, out of the goodness of our hearts, just aren't helping. For various reasons, the typical response to poverty of donating vast sums of money to hurting countries doesn't help the poor near as much as other solutions and sometimes may even make the problem worse.

In 2014, a foundation called Feeding America did a survey on the people they serve and found that in order to stretch their food budgets 79% of them purchase inexpensive and unhealthy food in order to stay fed. This can seriously impact their health, because no matter the age, healthy bodies and minds require nutritious meals. In some cases, food insecurity can even lead to Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity. These are just a few examples of why food insecurity is so harmful. Fortunately, there are many organizations, clubs, and foundations that are committed to ending hunger in America, and eventually the world. The first step to solving this problem is spreading information, and realizing just how dangerous food insecurity is, and who it affects. After learning these things, you may want to help and there are many ways to do that. I’m sure in the past, you've donated food to the annual canned food drive our school puts on, and that’s just one way you can contribute to solving this problem. There are many organizations that ask for donations and will put your money to great use, for example every dollar you donate to Feeding America will provide 11 meals for a child in need.If you don’t have food or money to donate, you can donate