How about charities that fight neglected tropical diseases, which leads to increased school attendance and productivity since healthier people are more able to do things.
Also, Village Reach works to improve health clinics and the logistics of delivering medical supplies, so that the health system can better (and more efficiently) meet people’s medical needs.
In both cases, the charities seem to be providing immediate benefits which build into long-term benefits, rather than just temporary “give ’em a fish” type benefits.
Also, Village Reach works to improve health clinics and the logistics of delivering medical supplies, so that the health system can better (and more efficiently) meet people’s medical needs.
...VillageReach has some other major strengths as well—strengths that make it a good fit not just for individual donors looking to help people cost-effectively, but also for more ambitious donors hoping to contribute to transformative change.
That does look very good indeed. I’m not sure I’d consider it the single best place for my money to go, but given limited time and the complexity of the problem, I think it may be worthwhile cause for this years’ batch of charity/holiday-warm-fuzzies-purchasing.
How about charities that fight neglected tropical diseases, which leads to increased school attendance and productivity since healthier people are more able to do things.
Also, Village Reach works to improve health clinics and the logistics of delivering medical supplies, so that the health system can better (and more efficiently) meet people’s medical needs.
In both cases, the charities seem to be providing immediate benefits which build into long-term benefits, rather than just temporary “give ’em a fish” type benefits.
That does make sense.
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See Holden’s blog post titled Health system strengthening + sustainability + accountability in which Holden argues:
That does look very good indeed. I’m not sure I’d consider it the single best place for my money to go, but given limited time and the complexity of the problem, I think it may be worthwhile cause for this years’ batch of charity/holiday-warm-fuzzies-purchasing.