This blog is now basically just a public record of my donation pledge… I aim to write more, about other stuff, at some point.
See previous years’ posts for the explanation of why giving 10% of your salary is a moral imperative — and also made very straightforward by the good people at Giving What We Can.
I’ve previously donated 10% before tax, but they recommend including the gift aid in your pledge. In calendar year 2024, I earned about £40k, so I’m donating £3.2k. With gift aid of £800, this is a pretty handy amount of cash for Giving What We Can’s Global Health Fund.
They then look for the most effective health stuff to do, likely including low-cost medical interventions particularly aimed at kids in less wealthy countries: malaria nets, deworming, nutrition, hugely effective things that should be funded by global taxation – but that’s still a way off, so donate what you can! They say 15,000 kids a day are still dying of preventable diseases. Unacceptable.
Using the GWWC donations platform gives you snazzy charts. Here’s mine (the first on where the
More next year, perhaps with blogposts in between.
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