Vajra Chandrasekera:
You always feel powerless in the face of a vast, untouchable "big picture" crisis. But that big picture is an abstraction. My way of dealing with it, then and now, was simply learning to ignore the big picture. The perspective you need is your own, not that of a state.
It becomes simple: every hungry person who eats today is a win.
Someone gets medication, a wheelchair, a tent, whatever they need today, that's a win. Tomorrow we'll do it again. You won't be able to help as much every day, but you can always help make that culture of helping, wherever you are.