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| “Charity? I don’t even have enough to fend for myself!” is the common rebuttal against charity. |
Charity has always been such an integral part of our lives. Considered an activity of supreme significance, it has soon become one of the most essential practices that a business feels the need to engage in. But, often the idea of charity has been refuted by people with the argument that they do not have enough for themselves to be able to lend a helping hand to the underprivileged. However, it has been statistically proved that an average UK citizen makes almost £ 27,400 every year. Thousands of working people each year in UK, together earn as much as millions and millions of pounds. So, what do we do with all that data? let us put them into perspective.
If an average working adult in the UK manage to contribute a single pound annually, then 30,000,000 people will be able to collectively cough up 30 million pounds. This way, if we simply shorten the time gap and contribute £1 every month and gradually £1 every day, image the amount of money that will go down to charity and the number of lives that would be changed for the better!
Most people fear the fact that a little donation would affect their standard of living and they would have to compromise on certain pleasures that life promises of. But, how much would any of us lose if we voluntarily contribute £1 every day? Probably nothing more than a meal at McDonald's. If that money can be given to charity you can probably feed a hungry family in Mexico, surviving in the garbage dumps in Reynosa.
If nine such people contribute a pound, a child in Hebrew or in Arabic can get to read a book. A minimum of $25 dollars can buy a soccer ball and a little happiness to underprivileged children. With $ 500 a laptop can be sent to every classroom of small schools in poor village, something that every kid and teenager in UK has today. A little more effort and $ 2500 can feed complete educational cost of a child in a year. An amount of $ 65000 can pay the educational costs of 25 children in a classroom for an entire academic year. But, for that no one is needed to donate $65000. All that is required is to come together and payment a single dollar to accumulate such a sum, that can brighten lives and brings rays of hope to several lives.
So, think big and contribute just a meager amount to make a big difference!
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