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With the pervasiveness of self-centred "charity" in my high school and university, it's cognitively easier to just disregard all charity altogether. Students g
by cbhl 13y ago
With the pervasiveness of self-centred "charity" in my high school and university, it's cognitively easier to just disregard all charity altogether.
Students go around asking for thousands of dollars to send local kids to go "build a {house, school, well} in {third-world country}". If you look at the budget breakdowns, something like 80% of it goes to the flights getting the students down to said country in the first place.
- tptacek 13y agoI know this is true but find it implausible that those donations are really cannibalizing donations to worthy charities. I think it's more likely that they're donations that wouldn't have been made otherwise. Let's also be clear that in this case, with Watsi, there's no cannibalization to refer to. Watsi is in many cases working with Partners in Health, which is pretty close to being an unimpeachable charity.
- cbhl 13y agoI agree with you, but I am not looking forward to the day when we see high-schoolers run around selling chocolate bars with "100% of profits go to Watsi" as the selling point, and then sending more than half of that money to some overpriced "run-your-own-fundraiser" chocolate middlemen.