Poverty is our obligation

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Despite many different problems that the world has, poverty is one of the hottest topics the world trying to combat. A question is raised revolving around this issue that whether or not it is everyone’s obligation to fight against poverty. Some would agree but there are others who have serious perspective against the idea. I strongly believe that poverty can be eradicated if the world citizen put this issue as one of their obligations in their lives and donation, which can occur in different forms, is one of the best solutions to obliterate poverty. This essay is going to discuss the purpose of charity and how it is done following

‘We all should help ourselves first’ might be the best way to describe how we could survive in this world but if we could afford our wants and needs, it would be a sublime act of us to help others. The helps could be happened just by making a trade-off of how much we could spend our money unnecessarily and instead donating that specific amount of money to the charity, which could help save lives of others, is noble act of human notwithstanding to how much is donated or what forms of donations are executed. In some cases, the little money of us could buy some families in Asia a meal that they crave for, pay tuition fee for their children or even afford to purchase prescription medication for their health. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that greed spirit exists in everyone on the entire planet, people always look for returning prizes, regardless of the size of prize, after doing good deeds for others. The prize, however, could be depicted in wide range of pictures; for instance respect from the society, favorable votes or it could just be happiness, which is created for ourselves by knowing that lives a...

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...ublic that huge chunk of the money would go directly to the poor people; on the other hand, the lion share of the fund from the donors is kept inside the bank of Switzerland. Nevertheless, such cases could be avoided by the use of the hi-tech news which can be accessed from anywhere in the world at anytime. Thus, before donating the money to any organizations, we should find out about the background information of that charity in order to be an efficient donor.

All in all, it can be seen that it is our obligation to help reducing the poverty and we can all do it as it can be done in spite of how much the fortune is along with our morality and no waste of our valuable time. As long as the world unites as one and the world citizens show devotion to help the world by reducing the poverty, the problem could be reduced to a point where there would be no poverty at all.

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