A charity event

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money or goods that are given to help a person or organization, or the act of giving them:
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donation
I'd like to make a small donation in my mother's name.
Various local charities present their programmes and ask for donations
an event organized to collect money for a charity
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charity event
You are often invited to take part in charity events.
to give something to someone else, especially when you do not want to:
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part with
I was going to give away her old baby clothes, but I couldn't bring myself to part with them.
You don't like parting with your money.
wykolejency
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demoralised
Why should you support demoralised people, lazybones or the riffraff?
a person who is unwilling to work
brit Eng informal
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layabout
Idle person- nierob, obibok (
That layabout never gets off the sofa!
people with a bad reputation or of a low social class:
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the riff-raff
(the) riff-raff - motloch, holota
She says that charging high prices will keep the riff-raff out.
If something is ..., you deserve it because you have worked hard for it:
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hard-earned
People feel they are being cheated out of their hard-earned cash.
You are persuaded to give some of your hard-earned money to charity.
to obey a law, rule, or custom:
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observe
People must observe the law. Nobody should be an exception.
the rule that has to be observed at such events is that you are supposed to support all the charities
the right or ability to decide something:
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discretion
how much you will give is left to your discretion.
a place where animals breed and produce their babies:
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breeding ground
Young people have nowhere to go to after school.
This creates an ideal breeding ground for crime.
to have just enough money to live on and nothing extra:
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live from hand to mouth
My father earned very little and there were four kids, so we lived from hand to mouth.
the level of income people have when they are extremely poor:
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breadline
People living on benefits live on the breadline.
without a home:
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on the streets
the homeless are living on the streets.
to start doing something often:
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take to
Many of them take to drinking.
help and advice about how to do something or about how to deal with problems connected with your work, education, or personal relationships:
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guidance
They need guidance how to get out of the vicious circle of poverty.
a continuing unpleasant situation, created when one problem causes another problem that then makes the first problem worse:
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a vicious circle
They need guidance how to get out of the vicious circle of poverty.
a person who has no place in their society or in a particular group, because the society or group refuses to accept them:
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outcast
wyrzutek spoleczenstwa - social outcast
The poor drop out of society and become social outcasts.
an animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it:
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parasite
Financial speculators are parasites on the national economy.

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