I’ve been reading this book called The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer, and I guess this would be a review before I finish the book. The premise is simple; if you saw a child drowning, would you go over to help the child? At the cost of your new shoes? Most people would say yes. But yet, most people could donate a little bit in order to help children dealing with extreme poverty. One US dollar could translate into a child getting access to clean water, or four US dollars for one mosquito net, helping to evade malaria.
The book is filled with statistics over and over on how simple it is to help a child in need, and yet we don’t do it. It is even easier than helping a drowning child.
In any case, I have been very moved by it and I’m constantly thinking about how to approach it. I will definitely make zines about it, but maybe just for today here’s some direct links so that you can give you see this post. Its literally 1 USD.
I gave 5 USD the first time, because I could definitely afford that, and it would go directly to help specific people.
When you’re donating, you can mention “The Life You Can Save”, its one of the questions in the donation submission because they will ask how you came to know about it.
It makes me think, could I spend my money better, so that I could give more? Saving not for myself, but for the good of the people who actually need that cash right now, somewhere in the world. There are literally millions who would benefit with a little bit. And I wish I could do it more but I’m just so stuck in my current world.
This is very personal, but I really do wish I could do more to help. I hope you will.
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