They are small accomplishments, but small accomplishments count. This is how I get past my fear of not knowing what to do. I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. I think that a few months is probably too optimistic when it comes to the problems of the inner city.
Years is a more likely time frame.
But the victories are possible. I know they are. In it, Mel Gibson plays a journalist in war-torn Indonesia. There is a scene in which an Indonesian photographer takes the journalist to see a family living in the slums of Jakarta. The photographer regularly brings food and money to the family.