The best thing you can do is probably to donate a significant percentage of your income to an effective international aid organization, like VillageReach or Oxf

The best thing you can do is probably to donate a significant percentage of your income to an effective international aid organization, like VillageReach or Oxfam. The money you're earning performing your standard job is simply able to produce more good than having you fly around the world attempting to do things to help (usually in an inferior way to locals) would. I've been doing this for a few years: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2010/11/26/giving-thanks http://blog.printf.net/articles/2010/11/26/giving-thanks And I've come to rely on GiveWell, which is an organization performing quantitative review of which charities produce the most good per dollar donated: http://www.givewell.org/ http://www.givewell.org/ Good luck!