Care for the less fortunate
This evening I met a person I know who for one reason or another hasn't landed that job, lives alone with his dog in a shabby block of flats, hasn't had chances and opportunities, and has not been born to parents who can help their child up the ladder.
For one reason or another, perhaps personal problems I do not know of, he is one of the long-term unemployed.
I particularly felt sad for him this evening as he told me that a relative had died and he did not have the money to travel to where the relative lived and he had missed the funeral.
I was really perturbed to hear that it is very difficult to obtain any help with expenses if an unemployed person wishes to go to a relative's funeral.
What a heartless society we are becoming to our own people. The people doing very nicely, getting on well, making lots of money, and those in local and national government should look at how they could do something to enrich the lives of those who do not have much scope or seem unable to make their own lives better.
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