To me, the big thing that feels missing is a clear sense of what, concretely, individuals can do about global health and foreign aid. There’s so much (often depressing) news right now, and I think journalism tends to cover global health and foreign aid as distant problems that feel hard to relate to. From my experience, what motivates people is the sense of connection: knowing that their actions can actually make a real difference to people. I think it helps to frame this more as a shared societal problem — things that anyone could face if they were in that situation — and to be clear about the fact that people really can help, and exactly how they can do that. (Maybe I should shout out my recent blogpost on why I decided to sign up to the 10% pledge and where I donated to.) But that feels like it’s missing to me.
To me, the big thing that feels missing is a clear sense of what, concretely, individuals can do about global health and foreign aid. There’s so much (often depressing) news right now, and I think journalism tends to cover global health and foreign aid as distant problems that feel hard to relate to. From my experience, what motivates people is the sense of connection: knowing that their actions can actually make a real difference to people. I think it helps to frame this more as a shared societal problem — things that anyone could face if they were in that situation — and to be clear about the fact that people really can help, and exactly how they can do that. (Maybe I should shout out my recent blogpost on why I decided to sign up to the 10% pledge and where I donated to.) But that feels like it’s missing to me.