so then, it isn't about feeding someone, it's about teaching someone how to feed themselves. you give a man a fish, you fed him a day. you teach a man how to fish, you fed them for a lifetime. the idea is mentoring to those who need the skills to pass on to the next generation. it isn't about trying to gain from the ignorant and less powerful.
I agree with you, but easier said than done.
Where do you start? At home?
If a child is not staying in school, then homeschool till they get back and stay in school, and stay motivated.
If a child is too lazy, too scared or does not have enough skillset, motivation, education, whatever else to go out in the world and earn money -- be an entrepreneur and employ them in your family business.
It is hard.
At a community level? There are support systems to motivate, encourage and assure people right?
Either people have to seek that or when young, the parents have to enable that kind of social structure, exposure and framework.
It is mAyA we are combating with with these small attempts.
Someone talked about healthy families - the obvious support system. Lots of love - not blind, but aware love. Fuel for motivation.
It appears that children have a lot of cultural peer pressure to drink alcohol and party simultaneously with their education, and be independent from parents too soon (peer pressure).
And speaking at the society level -- means tough combat with mAyA*.
Love versus mAyA. Good luck.
Side note: Isn't religion a way to spread Love? (that is what Krishna has been doing for 5000 years - we call it religion), but even religious messages get tainted by mAyA and hence rejected by people.
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*mAyA -- term used in Hindu dharma for "that which is illusory, misdirected, misidentified" which generally is the case with the physical world.