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There are some good articles online about this - basically some charities let you sponsor an actual individual child, while others pool your money for a community. It seems to generally be more ethical to look into a community sponsorship, as communities with "sponsored" and "unsponsored" children end up with a two tier system, and kids can get really messed up and sad if their sponsor stops donating or sending things.
This is an older article but there was something more recently in the Guardian about which I now can't find!
www.bbc.co.uk
This is an older article but there was something more recently in the Guardian about which I now can't find!
What's it like to be a sponsored child?
Sponsoring a child is a popular form of charitable giving. But what do the children themselves make of it? The BBC's Emily Buchanan went to Ghana to find out.
www.bbc.co.uk
I did ... many years ago ... and stopped doing it because of the $20 a month we paid, the child only got something like $1! A lot of the money *allegedly* went into funding firearms for this particular country.
Effective altruism tends to be a bit of a nightmare but the most effective charitable donations tend to be less "glamourous" than sponsoring a child (malaria, deworming). Have a look at https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
Thank you. I was looking for one that’s more community based. I’m not trying “glamorise” poverty. I think it’s disgusting that people expect that children should write back to them, send photos etc. It’s so entitled!There are some good articles online about this - basically some charities let you sponsor an actual individual child, while others pool your money for a community. It seems to generally be more ethical to look into a community sponsorship, as communities with "sponsored" and "unsponsored" children end up with a two tier system, and kids can get really messed up and sad if their sponsor stops donating or sending things.
This is an older article but there was something more recently in the Guardian about which I now can't find!
What's it like to be a sponsored child?
Sponsoring a child is a popular form of charitable giving. But what do the children themselves make of it? The BBC's Emily Buchanan went to Ghana to find out.
But I saw before there were some where you could sponsor people’s educations
GiveDirectly seems like a really interesting charity - it's probably the first time I've really seen a charity doing the research and showing that giving cash to people in poverty really does work. I mean, I think we would all prefer to be given cash if we fell on hard times rather than donations of things other people think we need!