In my opinion charity is very important and necessary because you can donate and help to underpriviliged people. I live in a little town from Seville called Mairena del Alcor and here there are a lot of conscious people of this. There are an important institution that give meal and clothes to families without money and work.
In my daughter's school takes place a solidary run once a year. The children have to run to raise money and they have to get a lot of money sponsored by family and friends to send to Africa.