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• Me and my child are out of luck. posted (4 months, 3 weeks) ago
  We are homeless and desperately need help, as I cannot get a job. I plan to post this on any site I …

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• Would You Help a Homeless Person?
  

  [quote Atym]I once left $15 near a homeless man in my city; we don’t get them very often, and I always want to talk to them, but I’m afraid, they might be crazy and I wouldn’t know, or try to mug me, when I do give to them, it’s often descretely.[/quote]
  
  I love people like you. It bothers me when people are afraid of me just because I’m in a different situation than they are, it bothers me a lot- but when they give anyway it means so much more. To see the fear in someones eyes while they RISK IT ANYWAY means more than the money.
  - written 4 months, 3 weeks ago

• Would You Help a Homeless Person?
  

  [quote Ξ.Ģäβž.Ξ]Its a nice poem, but certain things don’t really add up.
  
  [quote Lilmizmoore]day after day he looks motionless, probably wondering if anyone will stop to care[/quote]
  
  If this person didn’t spend day after day begging in the street, he could be using his time more wisely and find themself a job.
  
  [quote Lilmizmoore]Quickly he bent over to pick up the mess, hastily picking up what he could, and leaving the rest[quote]
  
  A begger would never leave coins on the ground, they would most definately pick them up.
  
  I do feel bad for the genuinely poor elderly people who always do it tough, but as nikki said, the dishonest ones spoil it for the honest ones. There are shelters and charities to look after people like this. We are very limited as to what we can do for them.
  
  Buying a cup of tea for the homeless man, I thought that was really sweet. But in all honesty, thats about as much as you can do, because if you offered for them to stay at your place, or be too generous, you could nearly guarentee things would go missing.
  
  Twice this year in my town alone, we have had someone going door to door with a Salvation Army donations can and (looked genuine) a ID badge. I find out later, this person was a scammer. So they were collecting donations for the Salvo’s, but the Salvo’s had no idea who this person even was.
  
  This is what I mean. It’s very hard to get the motivation to help anyone now days, because it is just too hard to figure out who is telling the truth and who is just trying to scam you for your cash.[/quote]
  
  Just because you’ve never been there you think you know everything. You are a jerk, but even so if you asked me for money I would give- and I am homeless.
  - written 4 months, 3 weeks ago

• Homeless on the Internet.
  

  I am homeless. I AM on the internet begging for help. I am at a friend’s parents house for only a few more hours before I have to leave and return to the sidewalk with my baby.
  I am doing nothing wrong by reaching out and asking for help, as a matter of fact I am doing the only right thing.
  Were I to decide that I did not WANT to ask for help, even though my child is in need, just because I did not want to seem like a beggar I would be a HORRIBLE mother. I pray to god that there are less people like you out there than I think there are, because if not, me and my precious baby are completely out of luck and will either starve or be separated before anyone gives me the chance I need to get back on my feet after my son’s father beat me and left.
  - written 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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