A charity is a group designed to benefit society or a specific group of people in the areas of education and humanitarian aid. Charity work goes beyond giving relief to the poor, extending to the promotion of happiness and the support of many worthy causes.
A charitable gift is something that is donated by an individual or organization with the intent to benefit the public or some segment of it as a whole.

A number of charity organizations in the country specialize in different areas which include agriculture, HIV/AIDS, Child Care, and Education among others.
According to Nshuti Rugerinyange, Team Leader Rwanda Water Project stresses that his Charity organization has benefited over 7,000 people in Bugesera District in Eastern Rwanda by helping them access clean water, sanitation, and hygiene.
However, numerous developed countries, as well as organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, provide direct aid to African countries as a form of charity work.

International charitable work fills critical gaps in the various development sectors in the developing countries because government alone can not solve every social problem, without international charity, more people in the world would die of hunger, disease and live in poverty.

There are people who believe charity should begin at home but others believe it should originate from the heart. However, charity originates from the heart as you feel the urge of giving, begins from home, ultimately extending to others in the society.

Charity begins with the inward recognition of a need to show compassion to others whether consciously or unconsciously. Everyone has problems, troubles, and griefs of some sort in life but charity starts with those who learn to downplay their own problems, in order to extend compassion, kindness, and love to help others.Hence some people set aside their own pains to relieve the pain of others.

Charity is essential and therefore meant to be done for public benefit, relief and to provide assistance to people at times of need in any part of the world, especially who are the victims of war, natural disaster, catastrophe, hunger, disease, poverty, orphans by supplying them with food, shelter, medical aid and other fundamental needs.

The greatest gift to our community would be when we contribute to making lives better; when we touch lives by the dint of donations or charity, spreading light to the most needy and enlighten our souls in the process.
We can’t shut our eyes and breathe a sigh of relief, pretending we are progressing when the official poverty rate is 12.7%, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 estimation. That year, an estimated 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty according to the official measure.

According to supplemental poverty measure, the poverty rate was 14.0%. One in three Americans says they have stopped getting medical treatment that they or their family members need because of cost. Although this percentage is in line with the roughly 30% figures seen in recent years. Variation in the pricing for medical treatments ; Americans fear a needed treatment is too expensive.
The study has found that 553,742 people were homeless on a single night this year. It suggests that the poorest Americans are still struggling to meet their most basic needs.