Giving to People Who Give

Today I watched this video about a man who dressed up as a homeless person and asked for "anything" that would help him. People who gave were surprised to find the man giving them twenty dollars in addition to their money back.

This really goes to show that the homeless need to be looked at as individuals just as those who are not homeless need to be looked at as individuals. If we assume that all people are bad people, then we never really give people a chance to show that they're good. But with a little bit of interaction with individuals, we find that there are some good and some bad.

This is how we really must approach the problem of homeless people, by looking at each one individually and touching each individual's life rather than bringing numbers in a statistic down through universal programs (although programs for the poor are extremely helpful, we must focus on each individual in order to help them get back on their feet). Homelessness must be solved on an individual level, through human interaction and encouragement, or else it will continue on and peoples lives will remain without a roof.