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The organizations below are all mentioned positively in The Life You Can Save, which you should see for further details. We're open to listing other organizations. Please send us suggestions, with an indication of why you think that a donation to them would be an effective way of reducing world poverty.
Fistula Foundation
Supports the extraordinary work done by Catherine Hamlin in Ethiopia to
treat this obstetric injury that ruins the lives of young women but can easily be repaired by modern surgical techniques.
Fred Hollows Foundation
A $50 donation to this foundation can restore the sight of a person who could not otherwise afford the surgery.
GiveWell
Leads the campaign for evaluating the effectiveness of aid organizations - and your donation can go, via GiveWell, to the organization
they judge to be most effective.
International Planned Parenthood Federation
For those who believe that there is no solution to poverty without direct efforts to reduce population growth.
Interplast
Highly recommended by GiveWell for its life-changing surgery for those with deformities and disabilities.
Millennium Promise
Supports the Millennium Villages Project, led by Jeffrey Sachs, and designed to show that the Millennium Development
Goals can be met in rural areas at a modest cost.
Namlo International
Led by former mountain climber Magda King, this organization helps people in remote rural areas to build and run schools
for children who would otherwise have no opportunity to get an education, and then assists those communities to become self- sufficient through sustainable development.
Opportunity International
A microcredit organization rated highly by GiveWell.
Oxfam International
Oxfam (originally the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief) is one of the leading organizations combating poverty in developing
countries. (Peter Singer donates much of what he gives to Oxfam.) Oxfam International is the umbrella organization for all the national Oxfams, which are listed separately below. To donate to Oxfam, if you
live in one of the countries listed, contact your national Oxfam organization.
- Oxfam America
- Oxfam Australia
- Oxfam-in-Belgium
- Oxfam Canada
- Oxfam France - Agir ici
- Oxfam Germany
- Oxfam GB
- Oxfam Hong Kong
- Oxfam Ireland
- Oxfam New Zealand
- Oxfam Novib Netherlands
- Oxfam Québec
- Intermón Oxfam Spain
Partners in Health
Founded by Paul Farmer to assist his clinic treating the rural poor in Haiti, Partners in Health now also does similar work in
other poor countries, and was rated by GiveWell as highly effective.
Population Services International (PSI)
Distributes bednets and condoms in developing countries where malaria and HIV/AIDS are major risks to
life. GiveWell gave PSI its top rating in the category “Saving Lives in Africa”.
Poverty Action Lab
A research unit at MIT that seeks to test, where possible by means of randomised trials,
the efficacy of specific interventions to aid the poor.
Transparency International
For those who see the campaign against corruption as crucial to the fight against poverty, this is an organization
to support.
UNICEF
The United Nations Childrens Emergency Fund does anti-poverty worked aimed at children in many developing countries.
Worldwide Fistula Fund
Providing for the treatment of fistula in poor African countries, the Fund estimates that it costs about $450 for surgery
that will restore the hopes of a young woman who without the surgery would have a miserable existence in front of her.
Other recommended organizations.
Against Malaria Foundation
Provides insecticide-treated nets (for protection against malaria) in bulk to nonprofits who then distribute them in Africa. Recommended by GiveWell.
Friends of Shelter Associates
This low-overhead organization works with a local group in India to provide sanitation services to some of India's urban poor.
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Supports a broad variety of programs to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
throughout the developing world. Recommended by GiveWell.
Global Giving
Connects donors with community-based projects in all regions of the world. Not all are directed at reducing poverty, but there are many to choose from in this category.
Stop TB Partnership
Aims to increase access to life-saving tuberculosis treatment primarily by providing government health programs with TB drugs. Top-rated by GiveWell.
The Hunger Project
The Hunger Project encourages poor people in rural areas to believe in their own capacity to work their way out of poverty.
It assists a villaqe for five years, by which time the local people should be able to sustain themselves, and then moves to another area to repeat the process.
Vegfam
Provides funds for self-supporting sustainable food projects and safe drinking water, in ways that do not exploit animals or the environment.
VillageReach
A relatively small and young organization that aims to improve the logistics - particularly tracking and distribution of
supplies - for health systems in rural areas in Africa. Top-rated by GiveWell.
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