Some time ago, a wealthy man went to a poverty-stricken area to support the poor. When he came to the poorest family, he saw that the three generations of this family squeezed in a small house of ten square meters, all children were shabbily dressed, not to mention adults.
The family cant afford food for themself at all, and every day they can only divided up and shared three or four sweet potatoes.
The rich man asked curiously the strong man in the family: You are well enough, why you didnt go out to make money?The strong man answered: I go out and do the hardest work every day, however, I earned little and so had to live on the cheapest sweet potatoes.
The rich man thought about the mans words and then decided to support this family. The poor man was highly delighted as soon as he heard the rich man would give him money, and shouted loudly: the rich man is the nobel saviour of their whole family.
The rich man said to him: this money is enough for you to do some small businesses, and as long as you have an agile mind, then you wont need to do hard physical work any more.
The man kowtowed, and the rich man smiled a little and put down some money and left away.
One year later, the rich man revisited the poverty-stricken area. He wanted to know how is the life of the supported family now?Hence he first came to this family. When he pushed the door, he found surprisingly the family was poorer than ever, and they are sharing a sweet potato.
..The rich man was shocked to hear, and said in sigh: it looks as if we should help to change ideas of the poor at first, or else they must be so timid, and even if I give them more money, they still dont know how to effectively use money for themself.
