Charity
The Tv and the media every now shows and announces for pictures everywhere in the world who are very poor and at most very sick and dont have enough food, their bodies are so fragile from being hungry.
i wish if i can have enough money and know the means by which donations can reach them. i know there are several NGOs, and professional and internationsl aentities that help out here in egypt and in allover the world, especially in africa.
sometimes i feel guilty when we just throw fod becasue we are not anymore into it and i see these pictures of these hungered people.
sometimes we just ofrget about the food and till it is spoiled and gets rotten , because it is in excess
and sometimes else we say no , we wont eat something in the refrigerator for more than two days which will actually nor really taste nice after wards , but there are some others who wont really mind , they would be happy because something will keep them from hunger , they have no other choice.
i am writing this post as a call for any who reads it , to try to give a hand , i dont know or have any clue of how internationally , i mean to those in south africa, but inside the country , there are alot of means to help.
we may instead of throwing the remaining food into the basket or wait till it has no taste to get some plastic closed dishes and put them in anice order and cover and give it to any one in the street , like little kids . or those who clean down the street.
i am pretty sure that there are some NGOs that know some poor areas , we can helo through them.
But what i am talking about is that we should be self efficient ourselves in our resources and not to have waste and there are others and who dont find this waste.
If any one has any suggestions of how we all make a help , and change please go on.
8 Comments:
Start simple, just the extra food you have after every meal, wrap it in a plastic dish and give it to whoever passes by you to do service like, 'bawab, zabal, makwagee, 3askary at the end of the street.....' It is not that you have extra food that would feed a whole country!
thanks haal for your suggestion , i actually do that sometimes , and sometimes else i forget .
yeah i know that having extra food in my home wont mean that i will feed the whole country but if each did that or tried simply as you say, we will make a greater number of contributions, y3ni if i gave the excess food to some one in the street and every one else did that , we may be helping alarge number of citizens at the end of the day, ISA.
Sure! I think we just need to think practical, small and spread the word as u say. But our traget is to always start with ourselves! Sure you know how many poor people surround us. We need not an organization, just lead by example.
great post. there are also ways to recycle your leftovers. sure you know what i mean :)
roora,
Yes good post. One thing that bothers me a lot is that I have a lot of clothes & shoes that I don't use - some of them virtually new.
Lots of people in the world can't afford to buy clothes - some of them refugees in really cold places like Afghanistan or Chechnya.
During the Tsunami my Mom gave away a lot of clothes, bedsheets, towels as well as food & even medicines. But she didn't tell me so I didn't get a chance to take out my stuff. During that period there were NGO's that came to your house to pick up stuff. Now am not sure where to take them. Most NGO's that you call say they only accept cash donations.
Must work harder on this issue though.
yeah loulou, here in egypt , there are many organizatins NGOS, that accept donations in form of clothes, the most popular that i trust is called resala, www.resala.org
resala can accept clothes , any thing exta and they make an exhibition in poor areas and they sell them with very cheap prices after they reform the stuff, and the money they take from selling , they use in charity activities.
another thing , they know very poor families, last time they told me that i have any thing extra i can donate for those who are trying to help them in getting married, they accept cloth any extra furniture or any thing.
Maybe in your country if your things are brandly new, you may donate for those who are from a middle standard that have to wear nice stuff and at the same time they cant afford
Dunno what to say ya Roora...I feel so much the same...I got back to Egypt a few months ago and I've been trying to do elli Rabena ye2adarni 3aleih..(but I still don't really have "connections" coz I'm new around here if you know what I mean)... not just concerning food... but also clothes ... and even recently "medicine"...I hope this isn't irrelevant to the topic .. I was meaning to post it on my blog but since you brought it up I'll say it here...
well, basically the idea is a group of doctors,pharmacists and volunteers (me no doctor, no pharmacist :-D) decided to start collecting medicine people have and don't use, to redistribute on those who really need it and can't afford it... you know when for example you have a problem and you buy medicine to use for curing that specific ailment.. then you have the rest of the packet lying around .. can't use it and end up throwing it away? total waste right? I'm still working on that .. the collecting is easy ... all you do is explain to the people and you have loads of medicine piling in...the sorting out and redistributing- I can't really tell .. coz I'm not part of it.. but it seems they're doing a good job el7amdulilah...
Hope you find this useful :-)
great idea begad ya me :)
i will chjeck with that in home and tell people and do my connections (if any :)) and b back to you, but do you have a database for the sick people?
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