Social Welfare in Brevoy

Social Welfare in Brevoy is mostly handled by the churches, primarily Pharasma's. A portion of the parishioner's customary donations and tithes go toward charity for the poor and infirm. Pharasma's clergy typically care for orphaned children, single mothers, and providing the indigent dead a final dignity of proper burial. Abadar's clergy (while not believing in free handouts) will try to connect a poor, but able-bodied person with a potential employer, so that the poor don't stay that way and can contribute to the prosperity of the community (collecting a percentage for their service, of course).

Anyone being fed, clothed, housed, healed, or otherwise provided for by a church is expected to repay that kindness by working for them if they are able (tending to the grounds, cooking food, cleaning the buildings, etc). A mother who was aided by a midwife of Pharasma often serves as laity in the church sometime after recovering from birth, helping care for and nurse the orphans. Gorum's church is typically the one that looks after the needs of veterans, honoring wounded warriors by providing care for them.

In small, rural villages, the will of Erastil is that neighbors look out for one another and help keep the community as a whole strong. Across Brevoy, panhandling is seldom tolerated and treated as a public nuisance at best and blasphemy at worst, since beggars are rejecting the mercy of the gods they could be receiving at the churches (paid for by honest citizens' tithes), instead harassing working folk for their hard-earned coin.