This post makes some interesting points about EA’s approach to philanthropy, but I certainly have mixed feelings on “please support at least one charity run by someone in the global south that just so happens to be my own”.
Thank so much Chris. The heading, though, clearly said “Help me make some small stride on extreme poverty where I live”
Let me just say this: if you visited the project office of the UCF (in Kamuli), and see for yourself that even the people working at the UCF are also living in the exact same conditions of abject poverty that all other people in our region (whom we are aiming to move from poverty) are living in, you’d see why it isn’t wrong at all to seek support for the work we are doing on extreme poverty.
We are simply trying to build a self-sustainable path from poverty, but even myself as UCF founder, I was still going hungry (without any food) until only recently. In Namisita where the UCF is based, every local household in the immediate neighborhood, and every household across our region, lives in chronic poverty. I am not sure if it would have made sense for me to write this post and ask the world to support other people elsewhere instead?
This post makes some interesting points about EA’s approach to philanthropy, but I certainly have mixed feelings on “please support at least one charity run by someone in the global south that just so happens to be my own”.
Thank so much Chris. The heading, though, clearly said “Help me make some small stride on extreme poverty where I live”
Let me just say this: if you visited the project office of the UCF (in Kamuli), and see for yourself that even the people working at the UCF are also living in the exact same conditions of abject poverty that all other people in our region (whom we are aiming to move from poverty) are living in, you’d see why it isn’t wrong at all to seek support for the work we are doing on extreme poverty.
We are simply trying to build a self-sustainable path from poverty, but even myself as UCF founder, I was still going hungry (without any food) until only recently. In Namisita where the UCF is based, every local household in the immediate neighborhood, and every household across our region, lives in chronic poverty. I am not sure if it would have made sense for me to write this post and ask the world to support other people elsewhere instead?