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Originally Posted by HardDrive
Is it still worthwhile trying to help others if you know that many of those receiving that help have done little to solve their own problems? Is the act of service to others noble, even if the efforts only reach a small number who truly deserve this help?
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Let me tell you about a friend of mine, a guy I used to work for when I was a Lieutenant and he was an O-6. Vietnam helo pilot, still my friend.
This from an Arkansas web site:
Arkansas Advocates released a report calling for an independent assessment of a troubled state child welfare system. “We really move from agenda to agenda as the need arises,” says Kelly.
Arkansas Advocates has a way of seeking out new life in the state, so shortly after Healthy Connections opened in Mena, Arkansas, on the state's western border, the two groups began working together. Bob Young had retired as a Navy pilot and had moved to Mena. (Young jokes that he moved to the little town in the Ouachita Mountains because it was “more than a day's drive from my closest in-laws.”) The county had the seventh highest teen pregnancy rate in the state in the late 1990s and Young went to a meeting called to address the problem. He volunteered to write a grant and that was the end of Bob Young's retirement and the beginning of Healthy Connections, which provides health services to rural Western Arkansas.
Arkansas Advocates soon contacted Young about money available for enrolling children in the state's insurance program. Healthy Connections joined an informal network of health care providers organized by Arkansas Advocates. When Young would see problems in the children's health insurance program he would contact Arkansas Advocates about changing the policy in Little Rock. “They did a wonderful job,” Young says. “The majority of the barriers are gone. They were the glue that held the whole thing together.”
Here is a link to his website:
http://www.healthy-connections.org/aboutus.php
The reason I posted this is because there are more ways to help than forming a charity (which is also fantastic)...you can target specific needs in your community and work directly to solve them. I wish you the best.