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Now there's a peculiar title even for me, what is aid? We'll it could be helping someone out for instance if a woman has a flat tyre and is stuck on the side of the road and you stop and help her that's one of the more simplest answers but not the real answer to what aid is. For me it's humanitery organizations of which there are many helping the less fortunate and starving people of our planet which are quite a few if you think about it,I could name quite a lot but the list is endless so I won’t. You see a homeless person sitting on the pavement with hardly any possessions, he or she really need aid so you've give them some money even if you haven't got a lot yourself now that's a special sort of aid which comes from the heart because you think to yourself what if that person was me and you needed help and it was you sitting on the pavement waiting for someone to give you aid, so next time you see someone in that situation don't just pass them by give them some aid. There are church organizations that collect, store and distribute food and clothing to those less fortunate than yourself, that's aid. What about all the people around the world that are displaced because of war in their country and have no alternative but to leave their homes because of the danger to their families and neighboring countries open their borders and let them in giving them aid by supplying food and a roof over their heads, that's aid on an enormous scale because there are so many wars going on around the world. Then there are the starving people of Africa who because of war or global warming they can't grow crops and raise animals, they don't have a normal life as quite a few year's ago Bob Geldof did something fantastic by bringing a lot of rich performers together and performing live free which was televised around the world it was called "Live Aid" for those of us who can remember now that's aid on a ginormous scale but he pulled it off and aided the starving people of Africa. There's the Red Cross or Red Cresant which gives aid to everyone who needs it and they are in almost every country in the world, there's the doctors and nurses who give up their jobs and pay and go to somewhere that their expertise will be needed more that's aid so you see those are just a few but there are plenty more but I'm sure that you all can name a different one, so try next time you see an advert on the tv to help for instance children who have an illness that can't be treated in your country but can in another and the advert just asks for a little money, give some and then you know that you have aided someone and you will feel better about yourself afterwards, you've done your bit to aid someone, that's a gift that's given to us when we are born so use it and help those people that really need it and you will know that you did your best and that you aided someone, so that's why I chose this topic today because I think it's important to aid someone in whatever way you can, so don't just think about it do something, anything that will aid someone. 

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