Poverty and what can we do

"Don't look away", thats what I keep telling myself living here in Buenos Aires. When we drive by the shanty towns or I see the women in the subway begging for anything she can get with a crying baby in her arms. In America we like to think that person's own decisions put them into the place they are at; but here I lose the ability to do that when I see children living in house's that are falling apart. In David Platt's book radical he brings up the fact that 3 billion people today almost half of the world we live in live off less than $2 American dollars. This has been a stat that has greatly bothered me since I heard it in one of my first classes in college. Every time I catch stats like these it makes my heart hurt for the people living like this and the children that die on a daily basis. The other day while looking at Per Capita GDP for different country that was tagged onto an ESPN article I kept coming across African countries that my 2 week paycheck easily surpass what a person gets in that country in a year. If I was some hot shot million I might feel more detached from these numbers but I am lowly intern for a Christian Non-profit how can my income be so much greater than these people. This is one of the many things that has pointed towards the idea of working with people in need. Many times these people just need a helping hand from someone who really cares. The answer is not going to be throw more money at it. The answer is going to come from people that are living with these people and see their needs on a daily basis. I hope that myself along with others are willing to take up the idea of either getting someone to these people or being that person. I feel that if we stop for a second and look at how much we have been blessed with maybe we would reconsider what we are doing right now with the money and time we have. I hope to at some point be on the ground with these people and trying to help them to have better lives.