Helping the poor
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To view an Indian film actor from a distance, a lot of people spent money recently, totaling a tidy cash! How much of it was paid to the rich actor, I do not know. However, the sad fact is that while we spend money to see someone in three dimensions from far, we do not collectively donate money to help out a needy person, or enable a poor family to buy a rickshaw for earning or put a roof over their head! A news item published on December 22, 2010 however, provided a very useful news about an industrial group that has started giving interest free microcredit loan to needy enterprising people to enable them to improve their lot! This is an excellent idea and I deeply appreciate the initiative taken by them and their magnanimity. This is an excellent example of a novel idea, and we need many more such people who have taken this excellent initiative to help the capable but needy people, who given such support can develop themselves. This endeavour deserves widespread recognition, appreciation and publicity, so that many such groups can be developed, and more families helped to come out of poverty. It is our moral obligation and religious duty to help the needy in whatever way possible. We should learn more about this interest free microcredit idea that has just been launched. More information on the matter from our dailies will be very welcome!
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