Feeding program or Gardening program?

What is the best way to help the marginalized communities? In my journey to advocacy work. Many company CSR, NGO, LGU and church-based projects and programs is into instant approach. They tend to do hand out and feeding programs and projects. Sometimes lasted for a day to a month. Is this worthwhile? For the immediate needs it help. Is this sustainable? Depend on the funds and sponsors. Many years ago, I ask a gov't social worker.. Why they never help person with mental problems and street children? The few months ago, I encounter again a gov't social worker and a church-based social service worker. Not for general public info as they say. The answer is still the same. For gov't side, non-voter and "ipot'. They rather help those able person with 4 P's. Because of political patronage to vote. What is "ipot"? Not the adultery issue. It's about feeding or helping people with no political value. They consider mentally disable person and streetchildren. Not an important person due to non-political value. For church-based social service. Costly undertaking, if you have limited funds. That's why, we see a lots of this kind of people in our street. No political value, no one will help. Reality hurts and a bothering conscience. To see this people suffering too much. Due to gov't ineptitude and corruption. Despite the taxes they got. They have a social obligation to help the less fortunate. The private sector cannot do much. Why gardening program or projects? At first, it really hard to start something. Need hard work to make it happen. But, it can give the marginalized community a dignity as person. They can see and feel the work they done and the respect they got from gardening. The real work for food program or project. What you do is what you got. The sustainability is lifetime. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Chinese proverb -- Hope this enlightened us. Be awake and be aware. For a better society. God bless us all. Posted on Dupay Seeds fb page 04/18/2016