“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”
Make a Life: Lend a
Helping Hand to the Poor
and Needy
We live in a world where both kinds of people live, the people who spend their lives
lavishly and the people who hardly get three meals a day. The second kind of people
cannot even afford the basic requirements. One cannot make these kinds of people
sumptuous but at least ease them by lending a helping them. We can assist the poor to
achieve the essentials of life. We live in a world which is full of humanitarian needs;
numerous people are dying of hunger every minute. Helping a single person to get
food to eat and place to live can bring wonders to their life. In Bible, Jesus Says
“Whatever you have done to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you
have done it to me.”
It is the 21st century but the social era persisted from early times. No matter how
strong someone is; at some or the other point, he has to seek for some kind of help
from others. Offering a helping hand to the needy is the greatest job one can do to
achieve inner peace and satisfaction. There are many people who are deprived of even
the basic needs. On the other hand, there even is a huge crowd that has plentiful
luxuries. In India, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
How to help the Poor and Needy
Not only in monetary terms but apart from financial conditions, there are eclectic
people who seek for help and needs to be helped too. Happiness grows when it is
shared. A sense of sharing needs to be developed in every individual for both personal
and social uplifting. This has to be inculcated in every person right in the beginning
ages of growth and maturity. Kids should be taught how to help the people who are
not well off as them. Working class should take a step ahead to help their colleagues
understand the areas they are not that good at. Old aged people should impart their
experiences to the younger generation those who are in real need of it.
Help can be of any type; it is a personal choice to opt for it. A self- centered and
shrewd attitude might take you ahead in the career graph or let you achieve personal
development; but, satisfaction and content can be achieved only when there is a social
development. Collective efforts of being a help to the neighborhood of the needy
ones will surely broaden the perspective of people and sow a better future, a better
world and a better place to be at.
The Joy of Helping Needy
Some simple tasks could be carried out in everyday life by every individual will
surely help the needy ones. Children should donate their old toys and clothes to the
kids those who are poor and cannot afford to have all these luxuries. They should save
some portion of their pocket money and offer it to abandoned or orphan fellow kids.
People at offices should consider their house keeping staff, catering staff, transport
staff etc and be nice to them. Home makers should engage some part of their time in
teaching academically deprived students. A couple who is pretty rich can take the
responsibility of educating a poor child who has immense potential.
There are several ways in which one can be a help for the other. All that is to be done
is understand its importance and follow your positive instincts.
Essay on the Life of Poor People!
E.M. Foster says, ‘We are not concerned with the very poor.
They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the
statistician or the poet.’ Generally, or in common parlance, a
‘poor’ is that person who does not have sufficient amount of
money to purchase food to keep him and the members of his
family alive and the necessary clothing and a shelter in the
form of a house.
These are the persons who do not have a proper diet, no
shelter or have depleted shelter, live in insanitary conditions,
and have a lower life expectancy than the majority of
population. Their house is often overcrowded.
Many of them sleep on streets, subways, footpaths, doorways
or park benches under the open sky. In extreme winter, they
sometimes freeze to death in certain areas. In rural areas, they
live in mud thatched small huts and in urban areas in ghettos
(slums), devoid of all basic utilities—water, latrines,
bathrooms, electricity, etc. Thus, such persons must be
defined as poor, no matter whether society recognizes their
poverty or not.
Most poor people are either engaged in low-paying jobs or are
without jobs. Some are too ill or disabled to work and others
are living alone (aged, widowed), who cannot earn enough to
support themselves and their children, if any. The poor cannot
get loans for self-employment.
They cannot seek employment where work is available. They
also pay more for most of what they buy. Most of their
incomes, if any, are spent on food. Moreover, the commodities
they purchase from nearby grocery shop are often of low
quality, adulterated and stale devoid of any nutritive value.
The situation becomes more grim when the earning member
of a poor family loses his/her job even for a short period or
dies. The poor have no assets to protect them from the
collapse of their precarious financial situation. They thus have
hand-to-mouth existence at such times.
