Hello everyone, today September 5th is the International Day of Charity, a day set aside by the United Nations where they invite all Member States and all international and regional organisations, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organisations and individuals. To commemorate the Day in an appropriate manner, by encouraging charity, including through education and public awareness-raising activities.
Health inequalities, poverty and suffering, persist in many parts of the world, especially in developing countries. Charity has a significant role to play in alleviating humanitarian crises and human suffering within and among nations.
In addition to the efforts of charitable organisations and groups, we can all get inspired to carry out acts of kindness and love in our various works of lives.
I feel that big multinational organisations should be encouraged to take their corporate social responsibilities as an act of charity, and not a mere obligation. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a practice in developing countries in which businesses are expected to meet some social commitments. Big multinational companies are known to be major players in leading CSR. However, the effectiveness of CSR initiatives by these firms is questionable, as there are gaps between their stated intentions and the real world impact. For example, there has been evidence that some multinational corporations provided some social amenities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, but these provisions (e.g., hospitals) been abandoned and did not meet the needs of the communities they were meant to support.
The CSR concept still suffers some level of abstraction, shrouded in organisation politics; however, the stakeholder approach offers a practical alternative. If we all commit to the well-being of individuals, communities and nations, I believe a significant difference will be achieved.
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Peace begins with a smile.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls”(Mother Teresa A.KA Saint Teresa of Calcutta)
Please feel free to share your thoughts.
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