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Charities that help the homeless demonstrate kindness and care towards humanity. Such charities can be part of community centers, churches or organizations devoted wholly or in part to such a mission.
Charities that help the homeless strive to provide them with life's basic requirements: food, clothing and shelter. They also try to gain the trust of the homeless so that they will be more willing to open up, discuss personal issues and express their emotions. Above all, they take care to always demonstrate love and compassion for the homeless and other needy persons.
Nowadays there are many types of charities that are willing to lend a helping hand to the homeless. Some of the larger, better funded charities are able to take care of all the requirements of the homeless, while smaller charities are forced to concentrate on just providing the daily food needed by the homeless. There are some volunteers in charities who even reach out to show love and provide help to homeless people they find on the streets, some of whom may be young girls or elderly widows.
Another role assumed by many charities is the providing of free medical care through the establishment and support of strategically located free medical clinics. Those clinics may provide only diagnosis and treatment of basic illnesses or may also provide minor surgery services. Others also offer counseling services for people with alcohol addiction, drug addiction or mild mental illness, encouraging and counseling the needy to recognize their problems and deal with them. And some offer classes in stress reduction or vocational rehabilitation.
Most charities depend on donations to provide the funds they need to carry on their missions. And since fund raising requires staffing time and expertise, many charities prefer to leave such fundraising to a larger organization that has those resources. Probably the most well known and best organized of such organizations is the United Way.
By concentrating resources, securing personnel with the right kind of expertise and avoiding duplication of services, the United Way is able to do more for more people. But the task is so large, and the need is so great, that even the United Way must depend in large part on volunteers in the execution of its daily activities. It's worth noting that many youths and many elderly are lending a helping hand to charities, not by contributing money, by instead by donating their services. Through such volunteers, worthwhile charities with worthwhile, essential missions are able to do much more in helping the homeless, the sick, the disabled and the poor.
Every person on Earth needs to recognize their responsibility to others and the goals that can be achieved when people work together for a common good, such as caring for the homeless.
