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Photo by Matteo Menetti - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Global Awareness Day
The month of October has numerous Global Awareness days related to extreme poverty. We hope you'll use these as an impetus to increase awareness in your social circles about the many debilitating health issues that poverty causes, and the great things our Recommended Charities are doing to address these issues. Your support of this work is a great way to share some of our good fortune with those who have not had such luck.
October Global Awareness Days
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“In East Africa, life for the blind is paralysing. Many women are too poor to afford the bus fare to the clinic or hospital, or for a family member to stop work for a week to take them there.” Dr Ciku (Wanjiku) Mathenge is a highly-trained senior ophthalmologist who has transformed the lives of countless people. During her career, Ciku has witnessed several positive changes to eye health in the region, but there is still a noticeable disparity between the rate of blindness in women and men. The answer to this problem, Ciku believes, lies in education and training.
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At Give Directly, we have good news and more details to share on our work to launch a first-of-its-kind test of a basic income guarantee.
Thousands of donors have come together to support the effort, with total commitments at $21 million and $9 million to go to fully fund the study. We are now preparing to begin payments to an initial pilot village in late October. This will test the operational details of the model and also generate qualitative insights which we will then feed back into the ultimate quantitative evaluation.
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by Laura Schwecherl
Our founder, Peter Singer, just released his latest book: Ethics in The Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter.
The volume contains 82 essays—all of which are extremely accessible—on a wide range of topics, including philanthropy and how effective giving must be a social expectation for a moral and just life.
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by Brad Hurley
Development Media International
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In addition to being a fantastic volunteer for The Life You Can Save, Nick Hopkinson hosts the Britpop Revival podcast. Definitely worth a listen!
-- Jon Behar
COO & Director of Philanthropy Education
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Revisionist History is the new podcast series from renowned author Malcolm Gladwell ( Tipping Point, Outliers, The New Yorker) in which he goes in depth on an overlooked and forgotten topic or event. Always entertaining and engaging, the whole series is a delight, but I've picked out this episode, My Little Hundred Million.
In it, Gladwell looks at educational philanthropy and why the biggest donors flock to those universities that already have unspendably large cash reserves rather than those where the donation could do the most good.
-- Nick Hopkinson,
Director of Development, UK & Europe
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This Guardian article about a wonderfully successful anti-stunting program in Peru is well worth celebrating, especially in light of this month's awareness days for supporting women, girls, healthy food, and overall poverty eradication. Key to the program's success was "coordination between government ministries, regional governments, health professionals and NGOs," the types of multi-stakeholder partnerships that all of our Recommended Charities are dedicated to and that make their anti-poverty work so effective.
-- Amy Schwimmer
Director of Operations
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