Ways to Help Poor & Needy People

Below mentioned are 11 simple ways to help the poor and needy people of the
world, which you can often do without even leaving your home.

1. Donation: One of the easiest and most obvious ways of helping the poor and needy
people is through donation. You can donate money, food, clothes, toys, old furniture, and
books to the nearest organizations who are dealing to help the needy people. These
donations can brighten the day of poor people.
2. Education: Communicating knowledge can help the poor and needy people in a better
way to stand on their feet. Education is the basis of getting out from hardships of life.
Giving free education to needy people help them to grow as individuals and lead a better
life. Poor and needy people cannot afford the education so teaching them in a sustainable
way to grow their own food could help them to lead a better life.
3. Better Understanding: We can help the poor and needy people in a better way by
understanding their wants, desires, and thoughts without declining their dignity. When we
understand their needs, we can help them to achieve their desires or wants in a
respectable manner.
4. Fundraising: One of the ways to help the world’s poor and needy people is fundraising.
You can contact people about many organizations to donate to, can start campaigns for
fundraising. Fundraising can also involve donating items for free and holding auctions for
those items. These things would help in funds raising.
5. Stay Inform Yourself: One of the simplest ways to help the poor and needy people is to
stay informed about issues related to them. In this way, you can help the poor people to
do the other things more effectively all you need to do is stay informed on the issues.
6. Social Media: Social Media has become one of the most used, easiest and quickest ways
to help the poor and needy people. By the use of Social media and Social Networking
Sites like Facebook Twitter or Instagram, one can raise his/her voice and create
awareness about issues and get a helping hand in a short period of time. One can connect
to various charity organizations or community centers involved in helping needy people.
Through social media one can buy products online from websites and donate as a charity
that helps the poor and needy people. In this regard, we have also contributed by
developing an app namely “We Help” which is a platform solely for the community to
identify people who are deprived of basic needs of life. The main purpose of this app is to
share photos and necessities of those who need help and those who want to help can
reach them individually to fulfill their needs.
7. Raise Awareness: If you are aware of issues related to poor people whether through
social media or some other source you can use your information to raise the awareness of
those around you. If you care about the poor and needy people you can be sure that other
people do too, but may just be unaware of how they can help. You can share your
 information on different poverty-fighting organizations with your colleagues, family,
friends and also on social platforms like “We Help”.
8. Help as an Individual: Individuals can also help the poor and needy people instantly by
providing financial assistance that helps them to solve the basic problems of living. By
providing money to the poor and needy people, they can get the basic necessities of
living. Through monetary help, poor and needy people can get a meal for their family, a
place to live or some clothes to wear.
9. Moral Consolation: If you cannot help the poor people through donation then one of the
better ways to help the poor and needy people is to give them a hand up rather than a
handout. Giving moral support, showing heartfelt humility and respect to the poor people
makes them aware that someone really does care about them and trying to improve their
condition.
10.Join an Organization: Start an organization or create a group by gathering like-minded
individuals who are willing to help the poor and needy people and pick something to do
with poverty to work to ease. Start up a group of people to help educate community
members on poverty.
11.Collection Drive: One of the easiest ways to help the poor and needy people is through
collection drive. You can contact the organizations who work for poor and needy people
to find out what they need and then organize collection drive by setting up containers at
schools, or local premises in which people can drop off donations can ask offices to
donate to the drive.

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Why children work

Children work for a variety of reasons. The major factor is often poverty and a child’s need to
contribute to the family economy. Conflict and natural disasters such as earthquakes and
drought can also determine whether children need to work to support their families. Over
the past two decades, HIV/AIDS has had especially severe effects in sub-Saharan Africa. The
UN has estimated that by 2001, 13 million children under the age of 15 had lost their mother
or both parents to HIV/AIDS, the majority of them in this region. This has compelled many
children to become the heads of their households and take on the adult responsibilities
which accompany such a role.
The impact on children

Child labor can have a lifelong impact on children. Working long hours at physically
demanding jobs, often in dangerous and hazardous conditions, robs children of their
childhood, affecting their health and future development. One of its most far-reaching
consequences is that working children miss out on education. Lacking the skills they need to
take them into early adulthood and beyond, working children are also less likely to ensure
that their own children attend school and receive an education.