How Can I help?



If you would like to help, then please first understand that we do not accept donations.

We prefer to earn our money for our large family through our own hard work, determined effort and love.

It is an unfortunate fact that the road to disaster is often paved with good intentions. In this way many of us have come to expect our world’s problems to be solved by simply throwing money at them. Often, we then like to consider ourselves absolved of any further responsibility.

Four billion people in our world, out of six billion, are currently estimated to live in material poverty, and each year this number grows despite the billions spent on charity.

What we all need to understand is that very often the only thing a person in extreme material poverty has left is their dignity. To lose that is to lose their very humanity.

We would be wise to understand that all people are equal and that pitying people through charity demeans them by taking their dignity away. It helps to reduce them to dependant beggars; unable to stand proudly on their own feet.

The real root cause of world poverty therefore, is not a lack of money and resources, because there is enough for everyone in our world to meet their needs and have a comfortable life. The real cause of poverty is the lack of love and respect we have for one another. So the real solution to world poverty is for us to invest love; a feeling of love working in the same form as when we work hard for our own family to give them the best of everything.

If you would like to help us then please look about you and invest your time, effort and loving personal action in our world family. You might not have to look any further than your own neighbours and local community to do this.


Please constantly strive to help in a way that is wisely measured. Let the true measure of your help be that it harms no one, but helps everyone to feel their true status as equal members of the one race in this world: the human race. Together, let’s help everyone to feel themselves as respected, much loved and cherished members of our large and colourful human family.

Remember, charity takes away dignity, while love only makes us all grow as better human beings!


'Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.'

— Martin Luther King, Jr.



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