Alive! & Sparrowdown, so true! The WTS has always looked down on material giving and traditional understanding of works of charity, as it supposedly produces "rice Christians". They promoted their literature as being the highest form of helping people, using the principal about "feeding a man a fish for a day vs. teaching him how to fish."
Above all, we were to use our time and energies in the all-important preaching work in this time of the end..... Helping orphans and widows and feeding people if they are hungry, etc., was all to be done in a SPIRITUAL (thus, invisible?) sense.....