Right on Seaserpent. Most folks don't want charity. Most will scam you but charity is not honorable. As stated willing to help someone who will help themselves, the ones that scam, I will help them out the door, with a size 14 shoved where the sun don't shine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rikus you say the family are very poor even by Thai standards which confuses me because every poor village family I know would never even consider building a brick wall around their house, there would be a million other things to do with the money first.
Also if they have a wall around the house how will the neighbours chickens mysteriously end up their pot!
Could be a reason to ask for more cash, "Now we have wall we have buy chicken"