Name: Truong Le Huy Hoang

It is true saying that individuals should take care and show love and affection
towards their family and acquaintances before aiding someone else who live
further away. “Charity begins at home” has become the proverb we should take
seriously as a life lesson, as well as applying the thought to the society.
To begin with, it is largely believed that family members should take care of each
other before they can help others in the outside world. Children are the ones to
learn to practice piety at home and help out their parents more often. Family comes
first; thus, children should be taught how to prioritize their family on the top of the
list. It is also common sense that youngsters can share thoughts and show more
affection to parents in order to improve the sense of sympathy that can be applied
to the society when they are experienced enough. Friends are the second important
factor that the kids can learn how to cooperate and build a strong friendship among
them, which gives them opportunities to become more responsible and charitable
to people around them.
In addition, adults should set good examples to the children through teaching them
about charity at home. Devoted parents who do good deeds by taking care of the
poor and needy wholeheartedly are more likely to be role models in the family that
children will follow parents’ footsteps eventually. On contrary, if the adults treat
those people poorly, kids will learn the same. Therefore, parents play an important
role in forming children’s behaviours and attitudes towards charity in society.
Besides, it is unacceptable that parents ignore children completely to dedicate
themselves in helping others, which results in hatred towards the society of the
children deprived of parents’ love and care.
In conclusion, the proverb “Charity begins at home” has become a strong message
in society. In modern society, it is essential that we understand, show our family
with abundance of love and fulfill their needs. Therefore, we can expand the virtue
of charity to the poor and the needy around the world.

HUỲNH TUYẾT NHI

Charity is an essential part of humanitarianism that every person can do to help one
another. Although it has been held as a community’s organization for decades,
many people assume that this type of activity should begin at home before being
expanded to any scale. Personally, I partly agree with this view. 
On the one hand, with the compassion and empathy towards his family, one can
later extend his heart to give and share with other people. As a matter of altruism,
it is unwise for one to provide the needs of unfortunate people while his relatives’
living conditions are deficient in various aspects. Factually, charity originates from
caring and helping the family members, which is a requisite for spreading love and
assistance to the community. Therefore, family should come first regarding the
charity issue. Another point is, children are taught to be selfless by watching and
mimicking their parents’ charitable activities in the interests of their family
members. Literally, every child’s personality and behaviors stem from the
domestic environment. Hence, if parents do charity at home first, the child will
learn to cherish the charity’s true values and pass them down to his children. 

On the other hand, in a family that everyone is  comfortable in the living

conditions, it is suggested that they should give and share with the impoverished
before their family. As normally, members from these families may not lack
anything much, while the poor and homeless people’s lives are at stake everyday.
Therefore, when the needs of the community dramatically surpass those of their
relatives, wealthy people may prioritize doing charity to other people over their
family.

All in all, the values that charity at home brings are so precious that individuals
should apply it before involving in its large-scale organizations. However, this
view also depends on every citizen’s situation to get the best out of it.

Lê Vy

Untenably, charity is essential and therefore should be done by every individual in

any part of the world. However, it is not to say that people just need to focus on
helping others in society and forget to fulfil the responsibility towards their family
since home is the first priority when it comes to loving and caring. Therefore, I
believe that the statement “Charity begins at home” stays true over time.

One explanation for the statement can be understood as the foremost duty of every
person on the face of the earth is to adhere to the needs of their families. One
reason is that when people put their home on the top of their priority, they have
partly completed the duty of being parents. Undeniably, children are imitative in
their behavior that can unconsciously inculcate their parents’ actions in their mind.
Therefore, if people show love and care in family, their kids can become useful
citizens who can contribute greatly to the society.

Another reason is that there is a strong connection between people and their home.
If a person cannot offer the needs of his family members, who have been strongly
linked with him for years, surely that person will never be able to become a
sympathetic and caring human being. Therefore, before joining such charities and
non-profit organizations in order to help the needy, it should be noted that our
close ones also need someone to lend them an ear and support them.

In conclusion, even though charity should be done for public benefits, it is not
morally right to focus only on the big impact on society and ignore the need of
close people around, particularly inside the family. In my opinion, the root of a real
charitable activity is home.

Luong Nguyen Van Khanh - 10Anh

The realization that all areas of life are dependent on one another gives rise to our
need to be charitable. Charity is the voluntary and selfless giving of help to those
in need, and there is a saying that goes: "Charity begins at home." This essay will
elaborate on the proverb and discuss its different interpretations while pointing out
the flaw in our understanding of it.
On the one hand, the first interpretation is that one's top priority and responsibility
should be for the needs of his family and friends. It is inarguable that we must
learn to care for our dears wholeheartedly and practice piety at home before
spreading love to any other. For example, minute gestures like offering our family
members a shoulder to cry on, sharing things with them, and keeping them
company can teach us compassion and empathy. However, our family and friends
should be the starting point and not the end of our charity, and we shall never
prioritize their needs above others.
The other interpretation goes like this: charity originates from home and kids will
absorb and mimic everything adults do. Home is the first place where a child's
moral standards are formed and it plays a major role in making him charitable. If
we want kids to grow up with a strong sense of compassion towards others, we
need to practice it around them. Showing them the importance of charity at a
young age will make them cherish those values when they grow up. Thanks to that,
they will shower strangers with love, kindness, and gratitude as their family has
treated them in the same way.
To sum up, we can conclude that the two interpretations of "Charity begins at
home" are closely interlinked, though our prior understanding of the proverb is a
bit flawed. The saying figuratively implies that every act of charity roots not in a
grand scheme, but in one's beloved home.

Ngô Lê Ánh Linh

Society teaches us that ‘’sharing is caring’’, but as a child to our parents and a
member of our family, there is no charity when our family does not come first.
Therefore, the proverb ‘’Charity begins at home’’ indicates that a person’s first and
foremost responsibility is to serve their family then others.    
Starting at a very young age, children will sometimes wind up having the
inclination of sharing something to their adored ones. They may give their
companions a toy, a spoonful of their food or perhaps a tiny bit of adoration by a
kiss to the cheek or a pat to the head. But friends are not the first to start with, it is
the family that encourages them to share. Parents are the ones who teach children
the morale of ‘’ sharing is caring’’. Therefore, as they grow up, the urge to share
their love grows too. Children who are well-educated and receive much affection
will be inspired to do extraordinary deeds, and charity is one of them. If the habit
of charity runs in the family, children will also inculcate such a sense of moral
responsibility as well as how their family remains sensitive towards their needs.
However, not all people take charity as an expression of love and gratitude. Some
do charity to exaggerate their generosity, give themselves a boost in self-
satisfaction. They bury themselves within social services and neglect the needs of
their family. If charity costs the happiness of our family, then will it ever be
considered as charity? It is more likely to be a sacrifice to be made by a selfish
child who craves the attention of others rather than their blood relations. That is
why education in the family is necessary for the development of a child. In the
event that parents completely disregard their kids and give themselves into helping
other people then, at that point, will their kids eventually prefer to help other
people? The appropriate response will be no as they would believe that these
individuals are getting them far from their parents. Likewise, they would prefer to
loathe them as a result. 
The home, the society, and the country ought to be our main goal as they need our
utmost alleviation, endeavors, and deliberation. We as a whole ought not disregard
or overlook it, as in the saying ‘’ charity begins at home’’. Only when we have
guaranteed that our family, society or country are grounded and in a better
circumstance can we help other people and do charity for them. Therefore, I have
no objection to the idea of our home being our first and number one priority to give
our best in regards to the above explanations. 
NGUYỆT HẢO
The phrase “Charity begins at home” is an incredible saying due to the multiple
meanings that it conveys. It is a common practice in many households as well as a
life lesson for all individuals.
First and foremost, charity is an act of kindness, care and generosity. It is common
for many individuals to spend sums of money in order to help people in need just
for their highly respected reputation and completely toss their families aside.
Though becoming kind and generous is a very heartfelt aspect of one’s personality,
it is important that one must look within oneself. Thus, the most commonly
comprehended meaning is that before helping strangers outside of our lives, we
must extend a hand of assistance to our closest ones and that we must stand,
support to begin the acts of generosity at home. Although it can also be regarded as
selfishness.
However, at the same time, a life lesson can be interpreted from the phrase. This
practice is basically a constant reminder to people that changes will happen within
themselves first. An individual can flaunt, preach and educate people about the
values of being a kind and generous individual. Nevertheless, it is notable that if
that charitable person does not teach themself the same qualities that they claim to
spread to others, their acts and words will no longer hold any significant value in
life. If one wishes to bring positive changes into the world, they should first change
themselves and those who they hold dearly before anything or anyone else.
In short, the phrase “Charity begins at home” is a common way for family
members to emphasize the importance of assisting their loved ones first before
reaching out to others. At the same time, it helps those to teach themselves and
bring the changes at home in order to expand those changes further beyond in the
world.
NGUYÊN KHANG
Ever since the Covid-19 outbreak, people are warned to stay at home and
protect themselves from the disease. For those who are currently in poor living
condition, this would be a huge tragic as they can’t properly make a living and
survive the days. Because of this, many voluntary foundations have been organized
to solve this confinding problem.
Given that technology has evolved over many years, many funding acts are
able to take place right from home. Whether it is donating money or supplies, it
could be under the form of digital messages, applications, websites, etc. Sources of
money that are contributed would mostly come from participants’ online bank
accounts, therefore minimize social gathering, whereas supplies are traded with
those grands. There’s even the tendency for the youngsters staying at home to
support this trend by either selling or buying stuffs whose cashes would go to those
funds. For example, recently been held in Tay Ninh are the funds responsibled by
SMC who had the idea of advertising rice paper of all types to help gain money to
assist local children in Hoa Thanh District. On a larger scale that comes with larger
amounts, they could be assembled by those with fame in the community.
Celebrities such as Hoai Linh or Chi Pu would have enough trust for the society to
lay their money in in order to stack up an enormous total.
To sum up, charitatle operations are able to happen at home thanks to the
advancing of modern technology, and that it’s our duty to keep this work going to
save the poor out there.

NGUYỄN HỮU QUỐC THẮNG

Many individuals thought of “charity” as giving aid to others in need. Others
capitalize on the opportunity to make a profit for themselves. In any case, almost
everyone forgoes the actual quality for one to be “charitable”, which can be
summed up to a saying: “Charity begins at home”, and this essay will discuss about
it, along with my viewpoints of the recent events.
The meaning of the saying is straightforward: helping your friends and relatives
should be a priority, before helping others farther from you. However
straightforward it may be though, execution is hard. Many of us have been
dreaming of revolutionize the world, to end all hardship, poverty and bring peace
for all. In actuality, family and friends are those have been needing some form of
aid of us, which we never deliver. As a result, many people do not feel proud of
what they do, even if they help everyone in the world, because they never care of
the people surrounding them.
The reason for this lack of helping our relatives are plenty, but can be boiled down
to a few things. One of them could be of their schedule. The job market today
focuses on competitiveness, and so “helping” is somewhat a luxurious act.
Amongst our co-workers, strive to perfection is the key to success, and any help
given to anyone can be a detriment to themselves. Another reason may relate to the
greed of certain individuals, most notably celebrities. They see giving aid to others
as a method to amplify their support, as well as revenue for themselves, as
exemplified by the recent events of comedian Hoài Linh. Having withheld a large
sum of money, he was under public scrutiny, and has endangered his entire fanbase
and his fame. While the legitimacy of this story is still very vague, it is just as
spine-chilling to think of the possibility.
To sum up, a saying such short and forthright can be challenging to execute,
however true or dubious one may be. One thing is for certain, is that we cannot
simply forget those who have been with us since forever, our family, friends, ...
just to pursue something that is far out of our reach.
Nguyễn Ngọc Yến Phương
A proverb called “charity begins at home” is a true saying emphasizes the
importance to prioritize the needs of one’s family before anything. It is strongly
implied in the statement that each person first and foremost duty is towards his
family’s satisfaction. However, some people debate that the meaning of this phrase
is kids perception about charity starts at their very first home. In a way both
interpretations are true and interlinked.
On the one hand, it is largely believed that charity acts should always begin at
home. Charity does not necessarily mean providing only alms, it also refers to
offering any configuration of kind assistance. It is our responsibility to love our
family wholeheartedly and care for them prior to shower love and help those
outside. Therefore, obligation of one helping their family must be fulfilled before
any other charitable acts be well considered
On the other hand, it is rightly said that our parents are our first teachers.
Children observe their parents and begin to inculcate their habits subconsciously.
Hence, it is true to claim that parents and relatives have a significant role when it
comes to forming up children personality as well as their very first impression of
charity. The phrase ‘charity begins at home’ uses this phenomenon as to suggest
the conception that once adults are involved in charitable tasks, the children will
carry forward the legacy.
Charity begins at home is a persuasive message. It carries out two meaningful
implications in which cut deep generation’s ideology. We must remember what we
inculcate is what we teach our children as well as never forget to shower our loved
one with deep affection.
HUỲNH CÔNG TÂM
In a world laden with complications, there is a great need for assistance among
humanity. Hence, helping each others whenever they fall into dilemma seems to be
converted into a tradition. As to prove demonstrate this culture, there goes a saying
“charity begins at home”, which encourages people to take priority over aiding
family and people living nearby in lieu of ones who live far away. Personally, this
proverb is practical and worth applying to real life.
First and foremost, it is people’s leading responsibility to take care and adhere the
needs and requirements of their family. Indeed, family is the first place that brings
people to life, creates people’s identity and presents people a right to exist. These
are the exceedingly cherishing favour that family has lavished on human beings.
Therefore, as this proverbial phrase message sent, each person foremost duty is to
love and care our own family wholeheartedly and unconditionally. As the word
“charity”, people would need to treat their family with sympathy, kindness and
generosity because the grace that we have been receiving is so enormous and
honourable, it would be nothing but people heartfelt supports towards their family
could requite these gratitude. Hence, the utmost significant target that people have
to help is their family.
Second, this proverbial saying could also be a regarded as a parenting guide for
parents towards their beloved children. Obviously, home is the first place where
children pick up their habits, morality and personalities. And, undeniably,
whatever parents perform, children may make it a part of the person into which
they would become as they are likely to be very impressionable. Thus, if parents
consciously help family members and people around, the tradition to aid miserable
people may be captivated into children minds and manners. As a result, children
may grow up with a pure heart fulfilled with kindness, sympathy and philanthropy.
All in all, this phrase sends a brilliant massage about the proper ways to behave
towards people’s family so the saying “Charity begins at home” is an ubiquitous
phrase that should be taken into practice for the sake of the moral growth of
humanity.
THÁI
Throughout our centuries-long history, empathy has been woven into our identity
as we know it. Sharing is essential for each and every person’s growth. Therefore,
the proverb “Charity begins at home” instructs us to put family and the people
closest to ourselves first.
From the moment we are born, we have been taught to share with others not only
our physical but also our mental and psychological problems. It helps us grow and
develop into civilized, functional people of society. Thus, the act of sharing and
being charitable is considered one of the utmost noble for a human to do. Then,
accordingly, we should give back to those who shared with us the most, the family
or as the proverb says it, “at home”.
However, some of those amogus act angelic for far more nefarious reasons. They
utilise the act of charity to flaunt their wealth or to receive praise from the rest of
society, except for their own family. They chase every opportunity to put their face
in front of others, to expend their wealth in flamboyant ways to gather as much
attention as possible to themselves. At that point, what they deserve isn’t a shower
of praise, but a hellfire of criticism. When a charitable act is at the detriment of
their closest few, it’s a moral atrocity.
In conclusion, the home, the family and friends should be of utmost priority, the
proverb “Charity begins at home” cannot be more right and should be the basis of
all those who intend to give out to the world. Those who fail to do so shall lose
everything in the pursuit of fruitless endeavours for people who couldn’t care less
about them
BÙI THANH THỦY TIÊN
“Charity begins at home” is a proverb which literally means that one’s
responsibility and duty for family should take priority over other matters. Also, it
conveys a message that people, especially the young, should take care of their
family before they pay attention to the surrounding world.
First, about the meaning of charity, it can be interpreted as the willingness to help
others. Charity is deemed to be easy when doing, however, it is both challenging
and demanding. For that reason, charity should be promoted on a smaller scale,
namely family, then it can be expanded on a larger one.
Home is the place where we were born and brought up with an abundance of love
from every member of family. Moreover, it nourishes one’s characteristics and
shapes one’s personality. Whether we become well-mannered or not completely
depends on the way our parents and our family treat us. We learn from what we see
around us and we, as a kid, often imitate the way our parents behave, therefore,
family holds a crucial role in the growing-up process of a child and parents should
practise compassion and empathy around the young. Consequently, people can
only teach themselves to be kind to strangers by being sympathetic to their family.
When people are fulfilled with love, they can head for improving others’ lives. For
instance, numerous volunteers participate in the charity program “Dreams for
Youth”. That they spread love to those who unfortunely lost their parents or lead a
hard life by donating clothes, stationery such as books, packbacks and even
bicycles or raising funds for paying children’s fee at schools is a meaningful
activitiy.
To sum up, we are all living in a human family and when we start by cherishing
our beloved, we could move on to care unlucky people as if they were our own
relatives.

TRẦN LĨNH
In present days, charity has grown into a widespread activity but it’s origin starts at
home. Why do people say “Charity begins at home”? This is simply not any mere
proverbial phrase.
“Charity begins at home” states that a person’s first duty is to help the members of
his own family before anything else. Clearly, any act of goodness is beneficial if it
is on the right direction but a truly heartwarming act must be started from one’s
personal environment. If a man jumps right into charity ignoring his family
condition, he is most likely to be an object of ridicule. Above all, everybody should
do good to their kith and kin first in order to not leave his close ones in deprivation
when giving help or assistance to others.
To help someone is the biggest quality of a person and everyone should follow this
helping nature but not at the cost of your own family member’s happiness. Our
family should be our first priority in all manners. Charity isn’t the one at fault,
many organizations around the world have raised a huge junk of money to help
those needy children and adults who are poor and alone. In India, many home are
provided with clothes food, education and shelter, this is just a small example of
how important charity is to our world. As you can see, charity is a good effort by
people as long as it doesn’t create harm to their family members.
A bigger view, countries helping each other is also a form of charity. Nevertheless,
a country’s head is to concentrate on the development of its own country and the
wellbeing of its citizens then go for helping others.
To conclude, helping others instead of loved ones is just some kind of selfishness
which needs improvement. A truly charitable person only helps others after
understanding the need and demands of his family and friend.

TƯỜNG VY - 11A
A person starts their life under the shelter of family and it is considered as a man’s
high accountability to take care of the family before they spare a thought for the
rest of the world. The proverb “Charity begins at home” best interprets this
statement. From my own perspective, not only does it enlighten people’s outlook
on love and care but it also plays a key role as a reminder to today’s society.
“Charity begins at home” clearly states that people should care for their own
family and fulfill their duties at home prior to sharing heart-felt love to others.
Indeed, we must learn to prioritize and it should be our family on the top of our
priority list. Ignoring the needs of those at home and indulging in the society is as
bad as merely focusing our own needs and not extending any help to improve the
society even as we have abundant means to do the same. Similarly, parents have
given their children unconditional love without asking for returns, but if people
even cannot make their family life fulfilled as a sign of gratitude, how can they
spread their inner positivity to the world. Our present society has witnessed more
individuals devoting their career and life to the voluntary work while being
ignorant of their family than it is known. They enjoy the pride and satisfaction of
receiving praise for doing charity from the society without fully acknowledging
that their family is faraway left behind. Yet should they hold responsibility for this
inevitable ignorance? Personally, it is partly due to our misinterpretation of charity
work itself. Charity does not necessarily mean providing only alms. It also refers to
offering any kind of assistance and giving love to those in need. This implies that
one does not have to be financially rich or greatly sacrifice to do charitable work as
each one of us can help in our own ways to fill the void in others’ lives.
Practically, this phrase does wonder in shedding light on nowadays money-
oriented society where charity is misleadingly defined as giving money to those in
need from faraway. Adults should learn not to overlook their family giving the
excuse of fulfilling social needs. If people want to do greater things, they need to
do minor things in their surroundings first, similarly to the saying “You must learn
to walk before you run”. To greater extent, children brought up by loving parents
who are willing to share love can learn to reach out hands for both their parents
and the society they are living in. Broadly speaking, “Charity begins at home”
fosters the idea of sharing for the sake of both our own family life and the
community among the future generations, developing a world of family-grateful
and society-dedicated citizens.
In conclusion, the proverb “Charity begins at home” indicates a potent message to
the world, reminding us of family gratitude on the journey to help the world. What
we inculcate and practice is what we teach our children, thus it is imperative to
imbibe good habits. We must first shower our family with abundance of love and
then help those in need around us.
TƯỜNG VY - 10A
In today's society, charity surely plays an important role in encouraging people to
give help to the ones that are in need. People effect the others as they do charity
work. Seeing people around them do meaningful things encourage them to do the
same or at least have a warm heart. However, one fact is that "charity begins at
home", not particularly in society. This proverb can be interpreted in two meanings
that are being discussed below.
First, charity begins at home means that you should first love and care for your
family. It's a person’s first and foremost responsibility to serve his family first then
others. You need to make sure that you provided all the needs of your family
before going out to society to help the others. If a person doesn't love and care for
his family, how can he be loving others?
Second, this phrase also means that children should be taught about charity at
home. Parents and other adults in the family should be the ones to first set
examples for their children so that they can follow their footsteps. When a child
sees his family do good things to the others, he will grow up into a kind and well-
mannered individual and will also learn the same and make some efforts to
improve the society.
The above-mentioned interpretation of the phrase may not be complete in itself.
So, in linked, the two meanings should be attached to offset each other.
Hence, “charity begins at home” is one very important proverb that children should
be taught about both in schools and their homes.  It conveys that one should first be
faithful to one’s family and then to other people.