Philanthropy

Philanthropy is the act of donating without receiving something; any type of donation is considered philanthropy, like money, clothing, toys etc. Although everybody can practice philanthropy is also common to see corporations and institutions doing this action like Televisa when they do the Teleton.

I think this action is very positive, because you help a lot of people, you can make someone feel really happy by just living him or her a toy, or maybe some food, or even just to play with someone, its really heartwarming to do this, because it makes you see what you have and it makes you see that there is a lot of people that doesn’t have anything, it really make you analyze, and makes you thank god for all the things that you have

One clear example is when we do the “Time to share” in the school, this is when we go to a school were kids which families have low-incomes, and there we teach them the true meaning about Christmas, we share lunch with them and we play with them, and is really nice to see how this kids smile, and at the end of the day you feel really comforted.

I think that the negative thing about this is that there are a lot of people or enterprises that make this action just so that the society will see that they are doing something for them, but, the true is that they do this with a negative attitude and they don’t do it with the heart.

One example can be when some of the students when is “Time to share” they go with a really bad face and really bad humored, so they don’t really care for making the kid feel good, and this kind of things really upset me.

So we can say that philanthropy is something that we need to inculcate to the society, because it’s a really nice action that may not give you a material reward but for sure it will give you a spiritual reward.