How can society help those who are isolated, rejected, and shunned by society?

Question

The poor and homeless, the elderly seniors, homo-sexuals, single parents, street-beggars, people with permanent physical or mental disabilities.

Answer 1

hugs, hope, love, shelter.

Answer 2

I disagree with ZEUS, only on the basis that part of his message makes it sound like homo-sexuals and people in similar situations aren't willing to help themselves, which could equate to an idea that they should rather surrender their individuality to fit a society's norms..

Anyway, society could help ANYONE in general by just being more open.  There's no reason to reject or shun anyone!  Ignorance only breeds hate, and to quote Emma Goldman, "the most violence element in society is ignorance."

For elderly people and those with disabilities, I'd say to just make sure they get the help they need.  Some organization was handing out ribbons at a local mall to increase awareness of abuse of the elderly, etc..  If you're trying to make a difference, I'd say to increase local awareness of shelter locations, or just hotline numbers people could call in case of emergency.

Answer 3

Isn't that like 95% of the population? Try taking some of the power out of the governments hands, and placing it back into the peoples, then try treating everyone you meet with courtesy, dignity and respect, that would help, its to bad so many people are absolutely blind and ignorant to this fact! In all honesty I wish the majority of the human race would die off, and the lawyers, government officials, and greedy corporate big wigs were left to see how the world would be once they only had themselves left to make the world go round. ;-)

Answer 4

Society can only do so much for people that cannot help themselves and I don’t know if they ever will. Most folks that cannot help themselves need family members to help. If they do not have family members to help, then they are most likely doom. The programs that we have today only prolong the process towards a disastrous fate that probably started from birth. Most people these days should not be allowed to even have children but of course that is never going to happen. Help where you can as much as you can and everything will fall into place.

Answer 5

the scocity is place which can help them?

it is rejecting them

Answer 6

that's a big bag your carrying around.  I don't think all those sad sack groups you mentioned experience all of those adjectives.

Isolation? rejection? shunned?

Answer 7

By making 'conscious' decisions in their everyday lives, I think people can truly help those even with the little gestures of kindness.

I think for the most part, depending on where you live, where I'm from, lots of people are into 'greed.' They like to 'step' on those who they consider to be weak, by saying, "I can't help them if they can't help themselves.." -THIS DOESN'T justify the fact that they should continually mistreat these individuals. Instead, be a bit kinder, respectful, treat them like their human..

Deep at the heart of it all: everyone wants to be acknowledged, appreciated, accepted and respected.. If we can treat people in our everyday lives with these simple gestures, that will be enough to ask for.

In terms of helping people on a socio-economic level, we sometimes have to tend to our own needs first: paying our own bills, eating, sleeping, etc.. I think it's great if we go out and help others. When we do have the time or extra money, I think it's nice if we do.

Like I said, just showing simple acts of kindness will at least brighten up one person's day. By doing so, you can influence that person to treat other people nicely as well, and so on.. It's exponential!