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Feeding the hungry and helping the poor and needy, without hurting the dignity:

 - *This is to create awareness regarding the problem of chronic hunger faced by the poor throughout the world. _A poor father accompanied by his daughter, steals some bread from a store. As soon as he turns to go, the shopkeeper stops him. The daughter unable to understand anxiously asks the father as to what had happened. The father worried and disturbed opens his lips to apologise, but he hears the shopkeeper speaking to his daughter “My dear child, your father had forgotten to take back the change”. He then counts and places some money in the hands of the father, as if nothing has happened. The father stepping out of the shop with head bowed down in remorse and helplessness hears a voice from a customer standing in the shop, silently witnessing the scene. “Brother you have also forgotten the bag of rice that you purchased, please take this.”_ *Feeding the hungry and helping the poor and needy, without hurting the dignity and self-esteem is a very great virtue in the sight of God, w