Mental health, undiagnosed autism, high-functioning autism, if not diagnosed and further help given, can lead to disastrous consequences for even highly-educated people. I speak to many of them here in Public Service Canberra . Doyou give directly to charities, or individually? Both, I'd say.

I've already shared this story, but it doesn't hurt to share again. A friend of mine who does lots of charity work told me the story of an African refugee family coming into a charity shop. They asked if there might be any fresh food. The answer was no.

'We'd rather our children had fresh food,' they answered.

Well beggars can't be choosers,' the volunteer responded.

How to respond should be part of their training. But someoe like that is not fit to work in a charity shop.

There's a family here in Australia who have been treated so badly, They have lived on an island in PNG for quite a few years now, but had been back on the mainland due to their younger daughter having sepsis. That she survived is an absolute miracle, because they too were given tinned as opposed to fresh food.

Nobody chooses to be homeless. Nobody chooses to be down on their luck. Homeless people are not oddities. They're people without homes, and we should have the will to do somemthin about it.

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