Since
the time when society was formed and there were people living and working
together, the idea of charity had been with us. Charity grew out of the need to
help the other person at least make it through the day. When society prospered,
charitable organizations had sprung up.
Since
then, these organizations had been formed and existed to support and raise
funds for specific groups of unfortunate people. These days, there are numerous charities, associations
and agencies supporting a much wider number of causes.
Charity causes
Many
of these groups support causes that concentrate on their help for children in
general. There are others with particular agenda in their goals like supporting
sufferers of various diseases (The Gates Foundation had been fighting major
diseases like malaria, for instance).
Still
others are fighting against causes like homeless and disadvantaged people,
supplying food, medicine, and medical services. There are many other causes
that make people suffer (and die) all over the world. Fortunately there are
good Samaritans with all kinds of charitable missions to help them out, or at
least alleviate their situations.
Poverty
A
major newspaper had named extreme poverty as one of the root causes of these
unfortunate fates of people. Included, too, are some other unfortunate causes
like politics, racism, extreme conditions connected to sanitation and current
conflicts between men and men and men against nature suffering from natural
calamities.
Charitable
groups and organizations are there to support and raise funds. These
organizations depend on the generosity of the general community (worldwide now)
to make donations to charity either in money, goods and services (mostly in
money form, since these are negotiable and accepted world-wide).
The
donations help these charitable groups able to work out their missions. Many of
them are self-funded while others receive government funding.
Main aim
Charity’s
aims, among others, include the prevention or relief from poverty, war and
natural calamities. Further, since it is beneficial in all aspects, these
groups aim for the advancement of education or healthcare systems.
On an
immediate scale, in extreme times in places where there are extreme incidents
of extreme conflicts, the aim is to provide assistance to orphans or elders
that cannot fend or take care of themselves in extreme situations (war,
pestilence, calamities).
For
purposes of establishing their identity or presence, the groups will make it
certain that what they are doing are for public benefits and nothing else. For
one, the work that they do and the stressful circumstances they put themselves
into make it obvious that what they are doing is certainly not for profit.
Other duties
Doing
these humanitarian tasks with nothing to look forward to except the relief of
those they are helping, these organizations do their types of help in many
ways. They do it by providing direct help, giving information or raising
awareness on an issue or issues. Many of them are doing a mix of these.
Finally,
charity organizations can’t make profits because the money they raised all go
back to achieving their aims. They don’t have owners or shareholders to answer
to.
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