It’s always painful when you actually realize that.
Living through the years when any organization’s “help” when things got desperate it simply makes me shake my head at such things as this. When we came up against a wall we knew we had to fish or cut bait. It was up to us to feed ourselves one way or another. I picked Cotton before I went to school. So did the rest of my family. We raised a garden, we found sources for fruit (if we picked it) in nature or orchards. One can always find a way to survive as long as they learn how by being forced to learn, not by “giving” them everything. Handouts only make slaves. That is the truth of it.