{"id":573,"date":"2020-06-17T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T11:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/?p=573"},"modified":"2023-04-13T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T06:52:21","slug":"sustainable-poverty-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/en\/fundraiser\/sustainable-poverty-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable poverty relief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wallace D. Wattles published a very interesting viewpoint already in 1910 which certainly has some truth to it. I wonder why we still tend to help using old models of charity. I quote directly from his book \u201cScience of getting rich\u201d. You can get your copy of the book for free  <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceofgettingrich.net\/subscribe.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Do not talk about poverty, do not investigate it, or concern yourself with it. Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What concerns you is the cure. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Do not spend your time in so-called charitable work or charity movements; most charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate. I do not say that you should be hard-hearted or unkind and refuse to hear the cry of need, but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of the <strong>conventional<\/strong> ways. Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to it behind you, and \u201cmake good.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Get rich. That is the best way you can help the poor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And\nyou cannot hold the mental image which is to make you rich if you fill your\nmind with pictures of poverty and all its attendant ills. Do not read books or\npapers which give circumstantial accounts of the wretchedness of the tenement\ndwellers, of the horrors of child labor, and so on. Do not read anything which fills\nyour mind with gloomy images of want and suffering.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You\ncannot help the poor in the least by knowing about these things, and the\nwide-spread knowledge of them does not tend at all to do away with poverty.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of poverty into your mind, but <strong>getting pictures of wealth, abundance, and possibility into the minds of the poor<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img  title=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Graduation2.png?v=1595491033\"  alt=\"Graduation2 Sustainable poverty relief\"  data-id=\"23\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Graduation2.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/graduation2\/\" class=\"wp-image-23\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img  title=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"335\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GirlsReading.png?v=1595491032\"  alt=\"GirlsReading Sustainable poverty relief\"  data-id=\"21\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GirlsReading.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/girlsreading\/\" class=\"wp-image-21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GirlsReading.png 335w, https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GirlsReading-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You\nare not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow your mind\nto be filled with pictures of that misery.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Poverty\ncan be done away with, not by increasing the number of well-to-do people who\nthink about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor people who purpose\nwith faith to get rich.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>&#8220;The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration<\/em><\/strong><em>. Charity only sends them a loaf of\nbread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an entertainment\nto make them forget for an hour or two. But inspiration can cause them to rise\nout of their misery. If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that\nthey can become rich. Prove it by getting rich yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img  title=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Graduation1-150x150.png?v=1595491033\"  alt=\"Graduation1-150x150 Sustainable poverty relief\"  data-id=\"22\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/graduation1\/\" class=\"wp-image-22\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img  title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_6244-1024x768.jpg?v=1595491278\"  alt=\"IMG_6244-1024x768 Sustainable poverty relief\"  data-id=\"534\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/fundraiser\/why-we-want-to-move-to-the-township\/img_6244\/\" class=\"wp-image-534\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img  title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8037-e1595489076443-1024x768.jpg?v=1595494081\"  alt=\"IMG_8037-e1595489076443-1024x768 Sustainable poverty relief\"  data-id=\"279\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/img_8037\/\" class=\"wp-image-279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8037-e1595489076443-scaled-e1595494073301.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8037-e1595489076443-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8037-e1595489076443-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8037-e1595489076443-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8037-e1595489076443-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_8037-e1595489076443-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an entertainment to make them forget for an hour or two. But inspiration can cause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich. Prove it by getting rich yourself.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The\nonly way in which poverty will ever be banished from this world is by getting a\nlarge and constantly increasing number of people to practice the teachings of\nthis book.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>People\nmust be taught to become rich by creation, not by competition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Every\nperson who becomes rich by competition knocks down the ladder by which he\nrises, and keeps others down, but every person who gets rich by creation opens\na way for thousands to follow \u2014 and inspires them to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling disposition when you refuse to pity poverty, see poverty, read about poverty, or think or talk about it, or to listen to those who do talk about it. Use your will power to keep your mind OFF the subject of poverty and to <strong>keep it fixed with faith and purpose ON the vision<\/strong> of what you want and are creating.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conventional\ncharity like soup kitchen, giving clothes and so on only brings momentarily\nrelief but doesn\u2019t change the future. These things are not wrong. They are good\nbut they don\u2019t break the cycle of poverty and don\u2019t bring sustainable results.\nMr Wattles solution is to get pictures of wealth, abundance and possibilities\ninto the mind of the poor. They need inspiration. Inspiration can rise them out\nof their misery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was\nencouraged to find Wattles view point perfectly aligning with HOPE Recovered\u2019s\nvision. In order to be successful and bring sustainable change in an\nunderprivileged community, the people must <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>deal\nwith their past and leave it behind, <\/li><li>find\nhope or inspiration so that they start dreaming again,<\/li><li>and\nfinally live with purpose to achieve their goals and dreams.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Their faith\nwill keep them on track so that they will be able to overcome all the hardship\nand struggles that will come across their path of reaching their goals and dreams.\nFor this a strong foundation is necessary. We at HOPE Recovered believe that this\nfoundation can only be found in Jesus Christ. It is therefore a fundamental\npart of all our programs and activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">In order to put this into practice and bring a sustainable change, HOPE Recovered is raising funds for a children and youth centre. Your support will not only bring a temporary relief but change the future of a child permanently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/get-involved\/\">Get involved<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/hoperecovered.org.za\/donate\/\">Donate<\/a><\/li><li>Support the fundraiser for the children and youth center<\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wallace D. Wattles published a very interesting viewpoint already in 1910 which certainly has some truth to it. 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