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Australian Finance Podcast · Making effective donations to charity with Peter Singer · 8 Nov 2020 podcast

And that article got me going on the topic.

Well, it's not the only topic I've been writing about, of course, but it's one of the main themes of my work since then.

Well, as individuals, obviously, one thing we can do is to donate to the most effective organisations that are helping people in need.

And I believe the most effective organisations are those that are helping people in lower income countries rather than in Australia, because we're very fortunate in Australia that both that we're an affluent country, but also that we have a government that

does provide for basic needs for people who otherwise are struggling and i'm not in any way belittling the state of poverty that exists in australia and i think we should do more about it but people in australia can take such a lot of things for granted that people in other countries can't things like clean water for instance being able to for their children to go to school but also

healthcare, you don't have to have money to get decent healthcare in Australia, and getting enough to eat, basics like that.

Whereas in many parts of the world, there are people in extreme poverty, as defined by the World Bank, that's living, roughly speaking, on less than $2 a day, who can't take those things for granted.

And so, obviously, money goes further if you're using it to help people in much greater need for whom

$2 a day is their total income.

So $1,000 is more than they're going to earn in a year.

Whereas $1,000 for an Australian, you know, an Australian in poverty might be useful, but it's not going to be life changing.

So I think we need to look for those organizations.

And also among those organizations, because there are quite a few of them, we need to look for the ones that have been independently assessed and verified as giving really great

value for every dollar that they receive.

So I think that's the best way.

Obviously, that's the way that most people can make use of.

Clearly, there are other things you can do.

You can use your time and skills rather than money in order to support those organisations if you have time and skills.

But for most people going about their daily lives, making significant donations, giving a reasonable proportion of your income

to helping people in extreme poverty, I think is the best thing you can do.

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