Times are hard and folks are begging for help. Please know we want to help. HPLA Charities AKA www.habitacionsparalatios.org exists to help low income homeowners in need of home repair. But please don’t ask us to be sympathetic to your need when you display piercing at every part of your body imaginable or tattoos that embellish them or those that stand along. Society accepted, reluctantly, cigarettes or beer for young folks to be consumed in years past, however the bar has raised to a point where the cost of social norms for young adults has gotten ridiculous and society can not afford to support those people who indulge in such behavior and yet reach out for help due to financial pain.

As a 501c3 charity we have helped folks get a leg up and have see them go on and live an independent and self sufficient life style. The list is long of those who are giving back and working hard to survive in today’s, extra ordinary, and difficult time. For the new clients, these folks need to start with the basics and if they cannot define the basics than someone has to direct them to the hundreds of entities that are there to help educate them. I address this post to anyone of you reading it. You know several friends and family that come to you with hard luck stories and you wish you could do something to help. There is help!!!!!

I am not exaggerating in saying there are hundreds of organizations who help. HPLA Charities is here to help with minor home repair. But I am going to ask, what is it that you need? What is it your friends need help with? Rent, utilities, food, housing? At HPLA we want to do what ever is necessary for every family or individual to have their very basic philological needs met. I bore my readers with Maslow’s hierarchy. The pyramid of life begins at the bottom with attaining the very basic of needs. Food, shelter, clothing, safety. I see nothing in basic survival that suggest having piercing or tattoos. Those things are fore folks that have attained and earned the next level of the hierarchy.

If you are reading this I am preaching to the choir but please know you have to be the conduit that gets the word to these folks of which we speak. I recently spoke to a young man who got a girl pregnant. She is 8 months along and the girls Dad is trying to help the young man get work to support his daughter and the soon to be new family. If the Dad had known what was going to be than the thousands of dollars he spent on tattoos might have been diverted. But, since most folks are living pay check to pay check now there is no thought of the future, just today. So now they are crying on societies shoulder to pay for the prenatal care the medical expenses and the cost of feeding the new born. And some are asking society to pay for student loan debt. Really? Really?

As a liberal government tries to help the poor or a conservative government turns their back due to what they may think is stupidity and laziness of the populous, that fact remains, society is impacted. Pregnancy is going to raise its head. Testosterone is inbred. Is it OK to outlaw abortion while third world countries are allowed to have newborns die of starvation? There is no desire to get political here. Our concern is only to try to get support and resources to do what we can do in our own neighborhoods to insure that everyone of our neighbors has their basic philological needs met.

End of story, but please consider a contribution to www.hplacharites.org/donate so we can try to reach those in need and provide them the basic resources. Please take our mission on yourself. Or better yet lets work together to better each other. God Bless You!