Monday, January 2, 2012

The urban poor

If you think all Chinese are rich, you are wrong. I do not have the figure how many percent Chinese are living below poverty line but I do know many are quite poor.

Yesterday, as I walked towards Jaya Jusco, Bukit Tinggi, I heard a small Chinese girl crying," I am hungry."The skinny girl was with her mother and her little brother, who was also skinny. I don`t understand why her mother did not buy her food. Was she poor? She dressed up okay, did not seem to be very poor. Or could it be at that time she got no money? I did not know. Despite the girl`s crying and begging, her mother did not bother. She simply replied," don!t bluff."I felt sorry and sad for the poor girl.

I should have stopped and gave money to the mother but I did not know whether that was an offend to her.I did not stop to help. I felt guilty. May God have mercy for the poor family and all other poor families in Malaysia and other parts of the world.

Every month, I do donate a little bit of money to church and I specify that the money is to be used to help the poor and needy people. May God provide food to all the poor and needy people, especially the poor children.

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