you check me one american girl

where is the line drawn when and when not to give?--give, like give charity.
what even iiiiiiis charity? do people always need to work in order to receive a reward...or say, shoes..a basic need? for example, Toms Shoes..they give shoes to children around the world that have done nothing to work for those shoes. they call their donations 'shoe drops'--which just implies they are simply given--seems as simple as if they are just dropped from the sky. but is this wrong? i feel flustered, but when a sweet little boy who i've gotten to know every day for 2 weeks tells me that he doesn't have the appropriate shoes to wear to school, so he borrows from his cousin every day..i feel flustered. especially since i have about 15 pairs at home that i'm annoyed at myself for not bringing to share.
this boy, samuel, comes by our house every day to get a new bandage from keegan. the first day we got here we met him as he was getting patched up from a different guy, apparently he had just fallen off a motorcycle and had a huge gash on the inside of his leg. he's 14, goes to school, has 3 sisters and 5 brothers, and apparently lives in a pretty awful situation. i'd never know from speaking with him or watching him interact with other kids--he's got such a personality..say's i'm a 'comic' because we make funny faces at eachother, he knows more english than most other haitians in this community--he's always helping me translate. so curious. he tells me i need to 'check him one american girl' so that when he's 23 he can come to america, withOUT a mustache(even though keegan's telling him he needs one) and have one american business with keegan and one house. i think he'd be brilliant in whatever he decides to do. i also think he could use some shoes so he can go to school and learn how to do whatever he decides to do, so we'll probably have to do something about that.

ALSO, honey comb is probably the most amazing thing i've ever tasted. honey, straight from the comb. you chew it like gum. or taffy. it's basically perfection.