Running late for work, I once passed a group of young people on the footpath wrapped in blankets on a very cold morning. I researched appropriate community groups and sneaked back out of work with the info and some money for them - only to find they were taking the day off from a very elite private school to try & catch a glimpse of a pop group staying in the hotel across the street!
I thought it was all very funny but co-workers made remarks like "I suppose that'll stop you giving to deadbeats" which it didn't: a few days later I sneaked a $10 note into the pocket of a very smelly old man who regularly slept in a lane near my work.
I once asked a regular young beggar in the city why he always approached me when I didn't look wealthy: he laughed and said that the ones who look rich don't usually give, it's the less wealthy who are the most generous.
I don't see such people where I now live, but I do give food to the local community space's weekly free lunch, and stay to eat food donated and cooked by other people.
I'm one step away from homelessness myself and I also lobby government for low cost housing, as if there were enough of this homelessness would hardly exist.
I gave money + food to a homeless guy. Is that normal?
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Running late for work, I once passed a group of young people on the footpath wrapped in blankets on a very cold morning. I researched appropriate community groups and sneaked back out of work with the info and some money for them - only to find they were taking the day off from a very elite private school to try & catch a glimpse of a pop group staying in the hotel across the street!
I thought it was all very funny but co-workers made remarks like "I suppose that'll stop you giving to deadbeats" which it didn't: a few days later I sneaked a $10 note into the pocket of a very smelly old man who regularly slept in a lane near my work.
I once asked a regular young beggar in the city why he always approached me when I didn't look wealthy: he laughed and said that the ones who look rich don't usually give, it's the less wealthy who are the most generous.
I don't see such people where I now live, but I do give food to the local community space's weekly free lunch, and stay to eat food donated and cooked by other people.
I'm one step away from homelessness myself and I also lobby government for low cost housing, as if there were enough of this homelessness would hardly exist.