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Donation pages for Médecins Sans Frontières: http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.

Donation pages for Médecins Sans Frontières: http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/ https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/ I have been posting these two links to quite a few Ebola threads. I am not associated with MSF, I just think it is a very good idea to send them money. If you are feeling brave and have appropriate medical experience, it would be even better to volunteer with them, as they are more in need of medical staff right now than money.

seren 12y ago
You can't earmark your donation for Ebola though, but they are spending like 85% of their funds on actual operation costs so you might be sure that your money will help.
- sbarre 12y ago
  On the Canadian donation portal you can select "Ebola response" during your donation submission. That's what I did.
swombat 12y ago
I made a donation of £1k in the middle of last month, when it seemed like MSF was the only organisation doing anything about this. Since then, the WHO and the US Govt look like they pulled their thumbs out of their arses... but they're still taking their sweet time. MSF is on the ground right now. I run a successful business. If there's one business risk I don't want to deal with, it's a highly contagious haemorrhagic fever spreading through the world like fire through gunpowder. If you run a business and you want it to continue to grow and exist, donate to MSF. Forget the charity - this is for your own sake.
- oskarth 12y ago
  I know you make it out to be a selfish thing, and while that might be true on some level, it's fundamentally a selfless act. It's actions like these that are the opposite of the tragedy of the commons. If even 10% of people with means acted in a similar way, the world would be a better place in very tangible ways.
adamc 12y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Wish they took paypal (or amazon or Google wallet), but it's still very much worth doing. Here's the paypal donation site: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/donate-with-paypal https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/donate-with-paypal You can look up "doctors without borders" from there.
jordanpg 12y ago
Related: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/09/26/351515481/episode-571-why-raising-money-for-ebola-is-hard http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/09/26/351515481/episode-... "CHACE: Doctors Without Borders tried to tell stories like this all summer, but much of the public wasn't listening. The hard thing about raising money for an outbreak is you really need the money at the beginning when the number of cases are small and more manageable. But of course, at the beginning, it's not as dramatic. It's the same problem with the famine."

seren 12y ago

You can't earmark your donation for Ebola though, but they are spending like 85% of their funds on actual operation costs so you might be sure that your money will help.

sbarre 12y ago
On the Canadian donation portal you can select "Ebola response" during your donation submission. That's what I did.

swombat 12y ago

I made a donation of £1k in the middle of last month, when it seemed like MSF was the only organisation doing anything about this. Since then, the WHO and the US Govt look like they pulled their thumbs out of their arses... but they're still taking their sweet time. MSF is on the ground right now. I run a successful business. If there's one business risk I don't want to deal with, it's a highly contagious haemorrhagic fever spreading through the world like fire through gunpowder. If you run a business and you want it to continue to grow and exist, donate to MSF. Forget the charity - this is for your own sake.

oskarth 12y ago
I know you make it out to be a selfish thing, and while that might be true on some level, it's fundamentally a selfless act. It's actions like these that are the opposite of the tragedy of the commons. If even 10% of people with means acted in a similar way, the world would be a better place in very tangible ways.

adamc 12y ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Wish they took paypal (or amazon or Google wallet), but it's still very much worth doing. Here's the paypal donation site: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/donate-with-paypal https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/donate-with-paypal You can look up "doctors without borders" from there.

jordanpg 12y ago

Related: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/09/26/351515481/episode-571-why-raising-money-for-ebola-is-hard http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/09/26/351515481/episode-... "CHACE: Doctors Without Borders tried to tell stories like this all summer, but much of the public wasn't listening. The hard thing about raising money for an outbreak is you really need the money at the beginning when the number of cases are small and more manageable. But of course, at the beginning, it's not as dramatic. It's the same problem with the famine."