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RE: Doing All the Good They Can

in #life6 years ago

I felt awe while reading your post, not only because of the great efforts these people have been doing for the world, but because of the fact that I did not know most of what you said even though they have affected so many hundreds of millions of people. So many things have happened right under my nose and I haven't noticed them. It's great to have you to tell us these things, including the enormous gap of wealth that I did not know was increasing so maddeningly fast.

A thing that you noted that made me think a lot about the way I do things is the "help people who help themselves". There are many resources here on Steemit fo the poorest of the poor, but they do not know how to go to get them, and if they do, they do not feel motivated to ask for this help, or they do in such a way that people instead feel a need to reject them (just in the way that beggars and homeless people are rejected on the streets by the people who could help them).

Is this a problem with education? Is this a problem with capitalism and the way we view the world? I don't know the answer to these questions, but they are topics that I think should be researched in order to be able to help more people more effectively and have people make the most they can out of the help that we can offer them.

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Lots of people need help and support, but there is something to that quote about helping people who help themselves. Hopefully, education and training can help people understand how to access opportunities.

Even with the resources, many don't even have phones to access them... And getting really little at the beginning discourages them, they look for quick means of livelihood

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