Similar is actually a dream of mine. To build apartments for single mothers, people that have lost it all by events out of their control. Give them the work opportunities around the apartments like baby sitting while the others worked. Let them live there freely to get them on their feet and get paid for what they do. Sometimes people just need a helping hand for a small amount of time. A few words of encouragement to build them up. Start up a business where they could work and still get paid along with the free rent and utilities. It's kind of hard to do stuff like this these days with all the stupid drugs out there though. There would be none of that and drug testing would be a necessity. There are unfortunately some people out there that you just can't help. Just the way it is. I don't tolerate drugs at all. Some do want help out of it and a good life, but there are, and always have been some that really could care less. Doesn't mean they don't need the opportunity. Or deserve it. You can only do so much though. And most people don't change. You can't help someone that don't want to change. Just have to look at Jesus and what He done to know that. God above does amazing wonders everyday, and it goes un-noticed and uncared for by so many.
I'm already working on the process of the businesses that would need workers. Prototypes and the likes. A win would allow me the money to get all that going. I would have enough to live on through what was won, have the businesses to help pay for the work done and keep the bills paid for the apartments. I don't require much to live myself. I know pretty much what it takes for me to not do without. Plus I have the ability to not worry if I have to do without. I can do without much easier than I can be taken advantage of. Pretty much raising myself since 11, I know what it takes to make it and survive. I also know how people are and there are some out there, you just can't do anything for. Some you can't help. Anything one does though, there would have to be no drug use allowed and testing would have to be done. 2 or 3 infractions, that person would have to get help or leave. You CAN NOT talk to someone who is not thinking correctly. And there is no one that is thinking correctly on any of that mess.
It really is a sticky situation with ideas like these. You really have no idea what you can get into. Especially these days. Someone has to do it though. Somewhere. Most don't really know just how bad it is out there. Most are just too consumed by their own lives to either see it or do anything about it. Some don't care. Some won't out of fear that it would cost them all their money or even their life. I loathe what money means these days. Haven't been scared of death since at least the age of 12 that I know for a fact that I wasn't. Probably prayed for it more nights than most could imagine. Can only thank God that it hasn't happened and I'm still here to be able to try. And it's all up to Him what I or any of us really achieve. Sorry, I just tell it like it is with me and the way I see and have seen it. So until I'm called home, I'll be working on making something happen.
You can't steal second and keep your foot on FIRST!!!
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength”.
-Arnold (Ahnald) Schwarzenegger-