A Stabalizing Hand, Not a Hand-out

So many of the charities, and programs today, especially those ran by governments, tend to give hand outs to people. They make the people dependent on them instead of helping the people to become strong and self-sustaining. They pick the people up and carry them over the bumps that lie in life's paths and make the people weaker. What we really need is programs, policies, and charities that just give a stabilizing hand, but allow people to continue to grow and become stronger on their own.

I would like to share with you two of these that I support whole heartedly.

1. The Central Asia Institute: https://www.ikat.org/
This is a group that build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is fighting the war against terror in a much more peaceful and, I believe, sustainable way than the governments. They are teaching the girls as well, which is something that had been neglected for some time. In just a few short years they have noticed amazing growth and advancement in some of the small mountain villages...not because a different culture was taught to the kids, but just because they were given knowledge and not left ignorant. It gives these children and their families hope in life, a reason to live and something to look forward to. And this they have done with a small amount of money. If they had the funds available for building, that governments have used to destroy, I believe the middle east and central Asia could be on their way to a whole new peaceful existence...something they haven't had in centuries.

2. The Smile Train: http://www.smiletrain.org/site/PageServer
This is a group that teaches Doctors in countries around the world to do a cleft pallet repair surgery which enables an otherwise normal child to have a normal life, in place of a life of shame and abandonment. They then fund those doctors to be able to provide the surgery free of charge to the children in need. They are affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in an incomprehensible way.

I urge everyone to support these causes that help people and societies to grow and develop much more than they ever could have on there own. Not leaving them dependant on others, instead encouraging Independence.

Thanks for your support,
The King