Do we really care?

Sometimes people say that they care about others, but I sometimes wonder at what extent do they really care?

There are many sayings related with charity, for example, my father used to repeat over and over again to my brothers and me "Charity begins at home", especially when we didn't want to share something among ourselves.
Another saying that comes to my mind, I don't remember when was the first time I heard about it, but it's a quite interesting phrase something like: "If you are wealthy, share your riches, if you are poor, share your heart"

I think this quotation summarises the real meaning of charity. We tend to believe that giving away some money to beggars is the only way of being charitable, but what happens when we have no money? We feel that we are helpless and there's nothing further from truth. If we have ourselves and our willingness to help, with these two things we can start changing one minimum part of this upside down world.

On the other hand, we have really wealthy people who don't even reflect upon the idea of sharing richness. It's OK to do the maths by saying "I've worked a lot, I've earned this money with my own effort, then why should I give some to those who rely too much on other's charity?". But we have to take into account those who have tried, but haven't succeed in working to get money.

The main problem nowadays, which in a way could explain this raise in the amount of people who don't work, are all the social plans released by the government which benefit many people and families. Why do I say this is a problem? Because since those plans started to function, it's more difficult to find women to work in housekeeping or moan loaners. They are too comfortable receiving a tiny amount of money without having to work, then why should they work?.

I strongly believe that being charitable is also related with this saying: "If you want to feed a man for a day, give him a fish. If you want to feed him for the rest of his life, teach him how to fish". Government plans in general terms only give the fish, even when there are some aimed at teaching how to develop a certain skill. The issue is that people don't take much advantage of that.

I chose the video which accompanies this entry, because as you may have already inferred, I really like Josh Groban, plus I started thinking in those boys singing with him. How they were chosen to do that? How are their lives like? Do they really live among poor African people? They looked quite healthy, well-dressed, and seemed quite happy.

Here I have to go back to what I've already said, at what extent do this people doing programmes to get money for the poor ones really care? Is it because they have to, or because they WANT to help others?...
In the end, if the goals are achieved that question shouldn't be that important, what wouldn't be quite nice is if either they only do it in order to have free publicity, or if they are just doing it to make a commerce out of charity.