Sometimes in our own broken nature, we can come up with various excuses to not give. Here are five poor excuses to not make the effort of helping the poor.
Poverty is not determined by your net worth, but by your heart's content. That's why gaining more money is not always necessarily the alternative to poverty.
The UK sends 11m tonnes of food a year to landfill, and yet millions of people are also going hungry. It is an injustice that spurs us on to act - but to do what, exactly?
New research from Christian-based charity the Trussell Trust suggests that taking away benefits from people as a punishment means they end up using foodbanks.
The ongoing problem of hunger in the UK has been branded "completely unacceptable" as a new report released today reveals that referrals to foodbanks have risen in 2016.
In January 2016 the UN launched its 17 Sustainable Development Goals in succession to the Millennium Development Goals that had guided its philosophy for the last few years.
There are millions of children who live in poverty. These unfortunate souls have to constantly worry about where they are going to get their next meal or where they can obtain healthcare, but their lives can change when people do their part to help.
Make no mistake, this is a political earthquake. Iain Duncan Smith, the former leader of the Conservative Party, the redoubtably tough former army officer and champion of the party rank and file, has resigned. Not because the measures announced in this week's budget were too soft, though. Because they were too harsh.
Two and a half million people in the CAR, half the population, have too little to eat because of conflict and insecurity, the UN World Food Programme said on Wednesday.