How would you help the homeless, Needy, less fortunate?

United States
October 3, 2007 7:49am CST
I am a huge ponderer/ dreamer imagentive person. I have often wondered if i had the huge oppurtunity to something great to make a difference in the world what would i do? I do my part in helping out whereever and whenever i can, but i just feel that there is so much more that i need to give so much more that i want to give and one day i came across with this idea... Tell me what you think. I would buy one of the old mills, factories etc etc. And reburish it, turn it into a big almost like apartment complex but not really maybe more of a hotel type of thing.. were there would be hundreds of bedrooms and each room would have a private bath( like a motel/hotel). The bottom floor would be almost open concept living room areas, dinning room arewas and kitchen areas. I would take people off the street, have companies working togetrher with me to hire people. each person i take off the street would get 3 new sets of clothes and a basket of everyday toiletress etc etc shoes socks.. Enough to go for a job interview... These compaines that i have working together with me will hire each person approatily. It would automatically be set up in there paycheck that a certain percentage we'll say 70% automatically goes into a savings account, 10% gets put into a "charitable funding account" and then the other 20% weekly they would have for there pocket. and then once they had enough money in there savings account we would start loking together for apartments and whatnot... i dont know just an idea.. anyone have an opinion on this? anyone have anything that they could add or change? what do you think? what would you do?
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5 responses
• United States
4 Oct 07
i think that this is a great idea. but do not forget that you can only help those that want to be helped and are seeking it so dont ve let down if it doesnt work for everyone
• United States
4 Oct 07
thats the exact same thing that my husband says. i understand that i know some people perfer to be left alone and not bothered and i know some poeple prefer no help... its for hte ones that need and arew illing to reive it.
@raijin (10345)
• Philippines
4 Oct 07
I also dreamed about this, wished that I could do this to help those who really deserves the help that I could give. I am always for fairness and equality, be it here on mylot and on real life. I cannot enjoy things I have, when knowing that there are lots of people who really needs it. So everytime I get informations of those who are in need of help, I always do my best to offer my donations whenever I could. Of course, I don't have to shout it out to the whole world that I've helped him or her because I try to keep them only by myself..
• United States
4 Oct 07
that is a very good resposnse... its good to know someone else is looking out for everyone else too...=)
• Philippines
4 Oct 07
That's a great idea! Well... I don't much have any idea in mind on what to do to help those people. But I would be rich someday, I would probably think of something in order to help them. They really needed the help another people especially the elite ones. We really have to help them.
@mjsdls (1840)
• United States
3 Oct 07
Yes i would love to have the money to build a big house and hire someone to oversee the place for the homeless. Teach them some skills and give them a chance to make a living and not worry about where they will sleep and when the next time they will eat again. The best person to hire to oversee that things get done right is a homeless person, train them and give them a chance to prove they can do it.
• United States
4 Oct 07
very good idea
4 Oct 07
if i had power id try and change the governments views on poverty after all the biggest problems in poverty lie with them