What comes to your mind when you think of poverty?
Homelessness? Hunger? Disease? Drug abusers? Alcoholics? Laziness? People on the side of the road with signs? Failed government policies? Orphans? Shacks? Dirty water? Africa? Haiti?
As we know, many Africans are living in horrible poverty and the conditions in Haiti are terrible. In Haiti, there was 76% unemployment rate, children dying of the common cold, unclean water, etc…then…the earthquake hits. I won’t go into much detail now, but if you are interested in reading more or donating, please take the time to do so.
It has been awesome to see how people are joining together and stepping out in love to help one another. They are donating their time and money to these strangers.
Sometimes it takes a disaster to shake us into action and make us realize what is genuinely important.
What I want to do is take a closer look at poverty. Not just poverty in other countries, but the poverty specifically outside our front door in the Phoenix area.
People are sleeping on the streets, homeless and hungry, in our OWN cities. What can we do to help?
Are we going to wait until a disaster hits to take action?
Here is an example of one man who is often overlooked…22 years of age.
Organizations and missions are out there striving to help the needy in our community. I will be going out and talking with the homeless and the rescue missions leaders to find out what the biggest issues are and how we can be helping.
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