Charity Work good or bad?

Have you ever wanted to support an organization for a cause? or atleast donate to charity yet you're still having second thoughts about their legitimacy, well you're not alone on this one if you'll ask certain people in our country, the reason why they have doubts about helping certain groups is because of the number of scammers lurking around, stating that they are a new charity institute but are actually sindicates, another reason why some of us are satisfied not to help charity is because of the thinking that you yourself can help! of course this can be true in certain cases like some people I know that conduct their own charity work using their own money and choosing the people that they like to help, the negative case that we can site for this one would be giving alms to beggar's I'm not saying it's bad but with my recent experiences, some of these people use begging for their livelihood since it is not illegal and does not need any requirement of some sort to earn money,some of us think that by giving a certain amount of money to these people will help them, but actually we are just making them dependent to this source of income, the side effects of such acts has already showed some bad results, an example I could give are the children who would wipe your shoes during the months of September to December and the one's that would give envelopes and sing, at first I thought that these people just needed a bit of help but eventually they started multiplying and that's when it struck me that hey they are actually considering this as a job, after sometime some of them even developed attitudes such as getting angry at you for not giving them money or food and even cursing you or spitting on you, even worst sometimes they would snatch stuff just to get something from you. these things happen because of the things that we thought would be good but actually has bad side effects, remember the Chinese proverb "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." what we are actually doing is just giving them fish thus making them dependent. these are just some of the reasons why a lot of us have restrictions in helping other people, but still there is still a part of us that would love to help, so what shall we do a good example would be to do charity work ourselves, by saving up our money and giving it to a charity that we know and consider legitimate and has had good effects like the orphanage they have good effects because they raise children to become good citizens, still having second thoughts about loosing money to charity then why not participate in such activities like Auction's held by known organization, you get something nice in return for the donation that you have given.So why not try? if still in doubt why not do some research and here is a good place to start www.unicef.ph.