Peter Singer
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And there are many other things.
They're not all as clear cut as that, but there are many other interventions.
I already mentioned restoring sight in people who are blind because of cataracts or preventing trachoma, which is the leading preventable cause of blindness.
Those are things that we can do very cheaply.
And we can find effective organizations who are doing this at very low cost.
And we want to direct people there because some of these organizations are 10 times, 50 times more effective than others.
And I'm not saying the others are frauds.
That occasionally happens, but it's very rare.
But some organizations, they're just not doing the things that will give you the biggest value for your money.
And that's what we want people to give to because we want to maximize the benefits of what people are donating.
Yes, that's right.
We do want to really know what we're doing and where the money is going, that it's helping the people we want to help and that it's helping them in
really clear-cut ways that either save lives, improve their health, or in some cases actually help them to get out of poverty.
That's a little more difficult, but we also have organizations like Village Enterprise, which has been shown through its mentoring program and providing a bit of seed capital and helping people and learning how to save.
It's actually been shown that it improves the chances of the people it helps from actually getting out of poverty themselves.
It definitely is more important than ever.
If you look back over the last 25 years, you can see a steady fall in the number of people in extreme poverty.
Extreme poverty is defined by the World Bank as living on less than $1.90 US per day.
So maybe $2.50 or something like that, or maybe a little bit more in Australian dollars.
So this is a really extreme level of poverty.
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