I know people who when they see people asking for money for food, medication, clothes, have offered to go with them and purchase the items....they have seen folk get "deer in the headlights looks" and run! In such cases they want some dope. Not a burger. My family has given to an organization called PATH, they donate food, toys, box fans in the summer, blankets in the winter. They never hand out cash. It is sad that we have to use such safeguards BUT the Lord wants us to be generous and loving, AND be good stewards with what he has given us, you give money to a skin popper (heroin addict) and you are not doing them any good and you are engaging in poor stewardship. This sounds tough perhaps, but this is the sad state of affairs in the Western World. I will grant a 3rd world situation might require a different "type" of wisdom, but since I am ignorant about that....I will shut up.
Pax.