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Your Dollar Goes Further Overseas
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We understand the sentiment that "charity starts at home," and we used to agree with it—until we learned just how different U.S. charity is from charity aimed at the poorest people in the world.
Helping people in the United States usually involves tackling extremely complex, poorly understood problems. Many popular approaches simply don't work. (See our discussion of education, for example.) Many more approaches have simply never been investigated, beyond the stories and anecdotes. (More here.)
In the poorest parts of the world, people suffer from very different problems. A child may die of malaria for lack of a $5 bed net, or of diarrhea for lack of a 5-cent packet of nutrients.
The table below illustrates the difference, comparing U.S.-focused charities to international charities. Click the name of the organization for more detail.
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