categoryNarrative

Helping Hands

The heroes are the helpers in these feel-good, food-focused, sometimes religiously inflected accounts of people "giving back" to a proverbial, persistent "poor." In this narrative, people in poverty just need a little helping hand from everyday heroes. The solution is communities coming together to help meet people’s basic material needs, though poverty will always be with us. The tone is generally hero worship-y and heartwarming.