Helping the needy
HELPING THE NEEDY IN THE SOCIETY If we choose to use our status and influence to raise our voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if we choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if we retain the ability to imagine ourselves into the lives of those who do not have our advantages, then it will not only be our proud families who celebrate our existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality we will have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. One of the most widespread and dangerous problems faced by humanity is that of poverty, hunger and starvation. There is nothing more horrifying than the realization that as we live our happy lives here, millions of our fellow human beings live in hunger and face starvation. The majority of the world population today lives in poverty. It is clear that the world system we have set up today is