Charity begins at home

I have seen and heard of cases where people are philanthropists online but there is nothing to write home about in their home and neighbourhood. This always brings questions because most times these charity works are labelled as show off and seeking people's validation and thus it is because the online world has a bigger audience than the mere neighborhood can do.

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They say charity begins at home, but these days, charity begins from outside and most times does not even get to reach home. This has brought a lot of backlash to people who are genuinely offering help and putting it online.

I will not lie, I am against the act of helping people who are far away while leaving those in the immediate environment behind. It does not sit well with my idea of someone being charitable. I see it as a way of seeking validation because there is absolutely no need to ignore the people in your immediate environment who need the same kind of help and then stretch that help to people far away. Although it could be that the people far away reached out first, which is very understandable, but in a situation where someone is very fond of helping certain faraway people while neglecting the immediate environment, that is very bad.

Most times, people do this because of what they stand to gain in return for offering such help. Once they see that no profit is coming from the people in their environment, they take the offer to faraway people who have something to give in return. This is mostly the case with online philanthropists. Most of the people who do this do it to build a large online audience that will help them in whatever they are pursuing.

But the craziest thing is that both are still charity work. The only way to differentiate which one is genuine and which one is bad is through the mindset behind the charity work, but then, it is hard to see through a man's heart.