Many people say that we live to help others. By helping other people, we fulfill our purpose. It is impossible to know how true this is, but we can well know the feeling we experience when we help someone and see the difference. Something happens, we get a feeling of satisfaction and happiness, experience a surge of energy and determination.
I don't know if this is proof that helping others is our destiny, but I do know that there are plenty of reasons to try and help someone when we have the opportunity.
Feel the difference
We all have a unique set of skills and abilities. Given these abilities, we can either do extraordinary things around us or not. It is entirely up to you whether you want to change your life and what exactly you want to change about it.
Many people have high goals in their lives and want to be remembered as visionaries. They want to change and save the world.
Others want to be remembered simply as kind people who are always ready to help and listen to you if you need it.
Which one do you think is better?
The one who changes the world, or the one who helps the individual?
Do what you can with what you have
To be remembered you don't have to do incredible things, just be around people who you can save from a meaningless life and who you can help start leading the life they were meant to live.
So that funds can calculate their strength and help systematically
Anna has wanted to do something useful since childhood
I have always been inspired by my father: first he helped a large family that asked for help on an Orthodox website, then a person with a disability, then a lonely elderly woman.
When I was in 11th grade, I had a lot of free time, knowledge of mathematics and little teaching experience. I saw an advertisement looking for teachers for orphans and got excited about the idea, even sent a letter. I was refused, but the desire to help remained. Unfortunately, now there is less time and money than I would like, but this is not a reason to do nothing.
Six months ago, I started supporting a well-known charity project. I really liked their materials - such work, it seems to me, should be rewarded.
I signed up for a monthly donation. It is small - 200 rubles per month, with 2 rubles returned as cashback. But I understand that this is more useful for the organization than one-time large donations - because it is thanks to regular payments that they can plan their budget.
Fight for justice
In your life, you will often see that someone has been treated unfairly. This happens both professionally and socially. Many people who deserve recognition don't get it.
By starting to fight and making sure others get what they deserve, you will become a true hero. By doing so, you will make a lasting impact on their lives and will be rewarded with love and help in the future when you need it.
The law of karma says: whatever you do, you will get back three times as much. In this sense, helping other people is a selfish act, but it is still a good deed that you should do without fear, with love and with the knowledge that someday you will be rewarded for it.
To become a good knight
Catherine became a good knight
I like animals. My husband and I have already adopted a house cat, but we haven’t decided on more yet. I feed the cats in the yard and always carry a bag of food in my bag.
One day I saw an advertisement for the teddyfood project and subscribed to them. The guys have a cool website, each animal has its own page with history, photos and an online camera, several shelters around the country are connected. You can watch your favorite character in real time and provide targeted assistance: for food, care, medical services and advertising. The minimum payment for a portion of food is about 40 rubles. It's very inexpensive and very simple.
Get things done
Compromise is the enemy of long-term commitment. If you make a commitment to help someone, by being a mentor or advocating for the rights of others, don't stop halfway. Finish what you start. Make sure that some changes occur so that your commitments do not turn out to be empty words.
The difference between stopping halfway and finishing the job will not be as big in terms of getting the work done, but it will be very noticeable to the person you are helping.
How to help people and how not to
The main principle of providing assistance: do no harm. You can probably remember situations when you wanted the best, but it turned out...
For example, many parents try to help their children with their studies. But it’s not always possible to do this for the good. Completely doing your child’s homework or some school project because he is tired and doesn’t have time is not help. On the contrary, it harms his development, prevents him from accepting responsibility and learning to distribute time and energy. Only knowledge acquired independently or with delicate, guiding help will be assimilated and retained for sure.
Or when it comes to parental assistance to grown-up children from wealthy families. Present the child with everything ready-made on a platter or give him the opportunity to express himself and achieve everything on his own, providing support and helping with advice - which will bring him more benefit?
Or a couple situation. The husband sits at home, does not look for work, drinks and suffers from his failures. His wife, feeling sorry for him, spins like a squirrel in a wheel and provides for him. That's the only way she can't help him. It is necessary to support each other in difficult situations. But by depriving a person of responsibility for his life, we rob him of the ability to cope with such situations.
Remember the saying: “Give a hungry man a fish and he will eat for a day; give him a fishing rod and he will eat for a lifetime”? You don’t need to solve a person’s problems for him, you need to help him find solutions.
There is no need to help people by taking actions in which you are incompetent. If you are not a doctor, you will not operate on a person who is injured, but take him to the hospital. Help with what you can really help. Let it not be through action, but through words of support and consolation, or the ability to listen, or by simply being there.
The assistance provided must be acceptable to the recipient of the assistance. There are situations when people are offended, insulted, upset if they are trying to help them. Sometimes people just don't know how to accept help from others. And sometimes people don’t know how to provide it. Remember that not everyone is ready to accept alms. Help out of pity comes from top to bottom, demonstrating a certain superiority over the recipient. Help should be based on sympathy, complicity, empathy - on the same level, together.
Next, let's talk about the phenomenon of volunteering.
Elementary ways to help your neighbor.
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How to help people without leaving home? We can find everything on the Internet, where global life is constantly in full swing. Find out about problems in a neighboring country, read the news of your city, talk to the person who posted the “I need help!” post. It is enough to become interested in the topic of charity, and we immediately find hundreds of options to make a contribution. Why "immediately"? Now everything is freely available, and people are actively disseminating information. Why not teach English in schools for free? What about the idea of participating in landscaping and cleaning parks in your city? A person is able to direct his efforts in a positive direction. The main thing is to want to change the world around you.
Helping others can be anything. An animal protection organization needs food for pets, it needs to create a social video, highlight a global problem - such activities stimulate a person to action. Many people don't think about how helping others makes a person happy. Inside he feels needed, gets involved in his work and fills himself with great knowledge.
Do you want to support orphans? You can make them cute cards, buy fruits, sweets and take them to an orphanage. I have a dream to travel, but with a purpose - a great option is to take care of elephants, feed turtles in Asian countries, help the deaf and dumb in Europe, etc. Such activities not only stimulate our consciousness, but also enable creativity. The likelihood of being in a negative mood and saying “I have nothing to do, I’m bored” definitely disappears!
How to help people? First of all, pay attention to the circle of close people. Have you managed to move away from your parents, but rarely keep in touch with them? It is worth asking what they need, how they are doing, and giving them care. It is important to sincerely want to contribute to their lives. From the outside it seems that everything is great with friends, but they really have nowhere to turn. Do you have elderly neighbors living nearby? It would be worth buying them groceries and helping them carry their bags to the fifth floor. Words and actions are needed not only by family and friends, but also by complete strangers. It’s easy to give up your seat in a vehicle, move an old lady across the road, or support the door for a loader with goods in his hands.
Every day, each of us can be a superhero who sows the seed of goodness. How to help people? Fill someone's life with meaning, which will become motivation for you to be active. Good deeds are possible wherever we can remember our neighbor. It is important to realize that true love is expressed not only in material values, but also in moral qualities.
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What else do you need to know?
You can help not only privately. Recently, corporate charity, that is, the voluntary activities of a commercial organization aimed at supporting social projects and helping those in need, has been gaining momentum in the world. Some large companies go even further and organize charity programs, which are even easier to participate in than making a donation to the fund yourself. For example, they offer convenient digital solutions so that you can help with one click.
“Rounding” works on this principle in Yandex Go. From December 1, 2021, users of the Yandex Go application can do a good deed simply by using a taxi. To do this, just subscribe to “Rounding”, and the application will round the cost of the trip up. For example, from 362 rubles to 370. The difference will go towards paying for trips for the wards of charitable organizations with which the Yandex project “Help is Near” cooperates. Among them: “Galchonok”, “House with a Lighthouse”, “ORBI”, “Perspectives”, “Gift to an Angel”, “Spina Bifida”, “Fragile People”, “Nastenka”, “Leukemia Foundation” and others. Charitable organizations help people with limited mobility who find it difficult to move around the city on their own. A free taxi ride is an opportunity for them to get to rehabilitation, study, or other errands.
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In 2021, Yandex has already added 10 million rubles to the project’s treasury, and anyone can join the fundraising through “Rounding” or donating on the website.
History of charity
We see a focus on good deeds in Russia back in the Middle Ages.
Tsar Ivan the Terrible adopted laws focused on state charity: helping the needy, creating an almshouse using public funds and private donations. His successor was M.F. Romanov. He paid special attention to the creation of orphanages and caring for the poor, and there were always enough of them in Russia. The disabled, the elderly, the infirm, and drunkards fell under social protection. They were taken to special institutions and kept until death.
A little later, a society of noble maidens began to be brought up, where girls were taught to show kindness, care and compassion.
In the USSR, charity died out a little, since the state was responsible for providing for the basic needs of people. Everyone had at least the bare minimum, so there was no need for charitable organizations or patronage. Although when purchasing a stamp for 10 and 30 kopecks, part of the funds went to the development of the Red Cross Society and the Red Crescent Society of the USSR.
But after the collapse of the USSR, international charitable foundations and organizations gradually began to operate, for example, Doctors Without Borders, the International Red Cross.
