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Do you give all of your money, save only that amount that is absolutely necessary for you to live in poverty, to help those who need it in order to live?

Because you are the smallest non-essential charity there is, or that there can possibly be. If you're giving yourself a nice meal or a haircut, you're literally taking money away from those who need it in order to simply survive, for "non-essential" reasons.

Or not... you see, it's all right for people to have different priorities and to please themselves with the fruits of their labor. If someone is pleased by giving gifts to less-disadvantaged children than those starving in Africa, praise them for prioritizing anyone above themselves.

Essential/non-essential is a subjective spectrum. There is a significant difference between relief aid, and development aid. Maslow's hierarchy could be used to argue that the kids in the village say, in Yokohama Japan, who receive toys, have an expanded capacity to aid others less fortunate then even they themselves had been.

Different people have different specialties and different abilities they're able to provide in acts of charity. If a toy-maker decides to contribute toys for impoverished people, they're using their ability and what they have at their disposal for charity work.

Saying that charities should just be purely essential is akin to saying that all biologists should drop all of their research to focus on curing Cancer, because who cares about Paleontology and Starfish and Whales when millions are dying of a disease right? Well, different scientists have different passions, and we've decided that well rounded scientific advancement can only take place when everyone is allowed to pursue what scientific questions they're passionate about.

The very same could be said for those who work for charities.

If there were no non-essential charities, that would mean the goals those non-essential charities are pursuing would degrade over time. That would make it harder to acquire those goals once we resumed those charities.

Often what seems like a non-essential charity at a cursory glance is in fact essential. For example: it seems like women's rights is a secondary priority to international poverty, but in fact women's rights are one of the most effective way to help a developing country, since with greater rights more women work (jump-starting the economy) and women on average have fewer children (decreasing the resources needed to feed people who aren't doing any useful work).

IAM Group Limited (Ltd.) Seoul, Korea doesn’t pledge allegiance to just one form of charity. Whatever needs attention, members from all over the world (Beijing China, Yokohama Japan, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, etc.) will act on it immediately without any hesitation. IAM Group Ltd. has a good history of working with varied worldwide charity organizations, be it wildlife, humanity disaster relief or anything at all.

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⏰ Last updated: Dec 29, 2014 ⏰

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