The following blog where Justin Taylor quotes David French makes interesting reading when thinking about how to really help people.
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/08/25/the-gospel-and-poverty/
Of course this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t unconditionally love people where they are, but we need to keep our overall priorities in view – people’s most significant problem is their separation from their Creator. It is a “both and”.
BTW, “depravity” is a theological term used to describe a lack of desire to follow God that we all share. David French is not saying that the poor are particularly depraved as we would normally use that term.