Today's guests urge a kind of charity that looks past the statistics and sees the individual. 

Dr Bonnie Robinson of the Salvation Army's Social Policy and Parliament Unit shares testimonies of lives transformed through transitional housing, prisoner reintegration, and addiction services. (salvationarmy.org.nz)

And broadcaster John Cowan mulls over how to respond to street beggars - the moral pull to help, versus a dilemma about practical consequences & feeding dependency.

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