Poverty here or there?

Hey guys, I guess it's been a week or so since I've written...I want to be more consistent but I don't always have thoughts, and also I was away all weekend...in abbotsford with my friends...so good...so short.

Anyways, I have been thinking for a few years now, about poverty and the dynamic between Canadian poverty and third world poverty. It's hard because I work in the homeless industry, but when I think of places in Africa, South America, and other places even in Europe it makes it somewhat hard for me to want to help people here. This is mostly due to the fact that we have governmental systems that take care of people, and I know there's a shortage of low income housing, and I know that welfare, or disability cheques don't always cut the mustard, but if you think of what people get here, and what people get there, it is harder and harder to think that the people in 'desperate situations' in Canada are actual life threatening 'desperate situations'. I'm not saying that we shouldn't help people in our own neighbourhood, but like I said in my last post, it makes it hard when people consider the help 'rights', especially when if you brought that same help to a family in Africa they would probably be so grateful.
I used to think that I would someday be a missionary...recently that passion has been returning. I don't know if I will ever be a cross-cultural missionary. I think it will always be a passion of mine, and I guess it's my responsibility and choice with what I do with that passion...I guess we will see.
Anyways, until things happen again...peace