What have I done..

I've been away far to long.  On Friday as I'm looking at movie trailers, searching for interesting new movies, I come across Explicit ills.  Sounds kinky, so I watch.  So far from my perception, but truly pulls at my conscience and makes me ask, what have I done to make this world a better place?

In brief the movie is about poverty and why, as one of the riches nations we allow so many of our fellow human beings to suffer the humiliation and angst associated with poverty?  Why, we as a people, have turned our heads to the suffering in our own back yards and neighborhoods? Why can we give so generously to feed the starving in Africa and India, yet we allow the young and the elderly to suffer in squalor in our own country?

Please do not get me wrong, we need to be concerned for all people, but if we fail to help our neighbors, how can we fell good about helping those in other countries.

Poverty is a viscous cycle, once a family is in poverty, the future generations rarely leave.  It's about education, it's about family, it's about availabilty of food.

How can a young child focus on learning if his or her stomach is empty?  How can a young brain develop if it does not have proper nutrition?  How can a child develop properly in it's mother womb if the mother fails to receives proper pre natal care?

if the answer to the question, what have I done is little or nothing, then ask what can I do?