How to Help the Needy?

Almost every good human being wants to help humanity one way or the other. Too much money is never a necessity for helping the poor. There are multiple ways to help the deserving and it requires a sympathetic and kind heart. The most important act is to motivate people in your surroundings like friends, peers, relatives and others for the noble act. Convincing others for a good deed is like a chain, where each person would start motivating the next for the noble cause. Here are just some of the ways you can start helping those less fortunate that yourself.

1. Look into your surrounding with fresh eyes and try to see what others' agonies and problems are. Put yourself in others' shoes and feel the problem and pain.
2. Think about the things that are not in your use but be of mighty significance for the ones in need. Donate these little things to the orphanages and charity centers and convince others as well for the donation.
3. Look out for the orphanages and arrange a coaching session for the poor, teach and train them how to earn and live an independent living. Teaching a small skill might help the others to a great extent.
4. Once you are taking your family members for the outing, take a poor child as well with you. This small act may not affect you too much but it will have great impact on the child’s mind. Treat them gently.  
5. Donate good books to the orphanages and it will help several to get benefited. Look for the children school books at home of previous years not of any use any more and donate these. It won’t cost you anything but will help the one who will not have to buy the new ones.
6. Arrange occasional feast or meals for any of the orphanage of your area.  You can ask multiple people to decide and donate for the meals and collectively it will cost little to each but the purpose of feeding the poor would be solved.
7. Purchase top fruit cans, juice boxes, peanuts, oatmeal cookies, other items that don’t have to be cooked and donate.
8. Purchase winter clothing, personal hygiene products, Stationary items, bedding (like quilts, sheets, blankets, pillows). Donate any item that you can, it might be of very little cost to you but it may help the others a lot.

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