The best way to fight disease and illnesses is to be actually experiencing them and trying to find ways to combat them. Such was the motivation that popular celebrity actor Michael J. Fox that brought him to put up this foundation in May, 2000. Fox was diagnosed in 1998 as having a young-onset Parkinson’s disease. Instead of looking for a cure on his own, he turned to making it a foundation to be able to help and make research on how to cure or fight the dreaded disease that has accumulated over $90,000.00 to date.

While there has still been no clear cure for Parkinson’s, Fox still believes that there is hope and that people suffering from it will eventually triumph against it. Donations are continuously racking in and such funds are the basis for making the aggressive research of the foundation advanced and possible to finally discover proper therapies and cures for Parkinson’s disease.

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Time is gold and money for most. But time and attention is important as well to people who are left in institutions that house most of the abandoned children and elders today. The attention that they seek is the attention that they lost from the day that they were left out in the cold for people who simply cannot face responsibility in the way that it should be.

Attention and time for these people do not need to be in the form of cash and goods. It is more on providing care and a crying shoulder for most since all their problems and woes are totally kept within them. Storing all of these and not being able to let out emotions is as hard as it gets. But people just don’t seem to care much for others since they obviously have not matured enough to take on responsibilities that people should be always aware of.

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Beggars are often misunderstood as people who have given up on life and choose to beg for support in the form of pennies and loose change. To these people, feeling that they have given up any hope of getting their feet back on the ground is a normal response if they were asked up close and personal.

While sharing a nickel or a quarter may go a long way for them, it is hard to believe the people would simply lie over and die. But to some people in such an unfortunate situation, it is more than simple surrender but another aspect of personal proportions that have led them to lose hope and live the rest of their days in misery.

Money and support is not all the things in a person’s life. The matter of affection and care is also an invisible need that people tend to overlook. For people who fill the streets in rags and dirty clothes, a simple comfort and smile may eventually give their lives a new lease.

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Orphans and people who are deserted for some reason by their supposed families should not be left out and forgotten. They should be given equal footing when it comes to enjoying the benefits of life and other social responsibilities that a normal person would experience today.

Such can be tagged as the need for equal rights and treatment. Orphans are human beings as well and they deserve to taste the benefits of normal people who have people to lean on in certain times. But for these people whom have been abandoned, it does not make any difference on whom or where they are. They deserve to be happy in the same way the people coming from intact families are happy.

Being an orphan is not something people expect, especially for children who have been deprived of their natural means of living. They are in this disposition for the reason that their supposed parents are unaware of what they have gotten themselves into. The obvious victim thus becomes the offspring, an insensitive act that cannot be corrected by these orphans alone.

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All over the world, there are a number of children and abandoned kids that have wandered off into the world without direction. Some would not immediately understand why they followed such plights in their lives but if looked up close, it is more of fate rather than choice that placed them in such situations. By this, it means that children are not to be blamed for being existent but rather the mindless people who would care more about themselves rather than what they have brought out in the world.

But to argue and continuously put the blame will not remedy the problem at hand. The best thing is to find alternative solutions such as looking for potential foster homes or new people to take care of them so that they may be put back on the right track.

This is what some organizations such as UNICEF aims to develop. It is not more about prestige, but making life meaningful to the younger beings that are totally wandering in the world without purpose.

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