Well im a little drunk now I admit, but im thinking quite in depth, how Can I help the world, it sucks how many people are suffering and I want to do something about it, so if anyone has any ideas about something I can do let me know, raising funds for charity, helping individuals I dont mind, I just feel I need to try and do something with my life to help... Sucks that people are not priviliged... So let me know any ideas you have... Thanks! (P.S Cant involve me giving lots of money, but im willing to try!)
How to help the world?
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You can help me by not posting spam like this 
Really though? Not a clue. I find the most a single person can do without a severe case of the lucky's is to make someone else happy (by that I mean a friend or relative, not a stranger as that'd be a bit too hippyish and creepy), by doing whatever's possible. It can take no amount of real effort at all really.
Really though? Not a clue. I find the most a single person can do without a severe case of the lucky's is to make someone else happy (by that I mean a friend or relative, not a stranger as that'd be a bit too hippyish and creepy), by doing whatever's possible. It can take no amount of real effort at all really.
You can help me by not posting spam like this
Really though? Not a clue. I find the most a single person can do without a severe case of the lucky's is to make someone else happy. It can take no amount of real effort at all really.
Hah, yeah I am sorry, I just got to thinking, and I realy do want to help, even if its just making one person think hang on, life is cool, I will try making someone happy, not realy sure how but everyone deserves to be happy, so hopefully even if I only effect one persons life before I die it will have been worth it
A tenner a month to the right charity can make a difference. A goat is pretty cheap, but makes a lot of difference to a family. A bag of seeds gives a farmer something to plant when the civil war is over and they can go back to their farm. Farming tools...plastic pipes for irrigation...etc.
I donate to a charity that goes to desperately poor places and hires locals to do stuff like laying irrigation systems, building a well, etc, then gives them tools, seeds, animals, building materials...for them to do the work themselves. That improves their self-respect a lot more than a handout every year. It's cheaper, too - a couple of years later and they don't need any more help.
An example...when I started donating, the appeal was illustrated by a man slowly dying in a mud hut in Ethopia, wondering whether his equally starving wife or their starving, sickly children would die first, wholly dependent on handouts and, unsurprisingly, profoundly depressed at his abject failure to support his family. He had some land, but that's no use without seeds or water. Two or three years later, they were illustrating the "this is what your money does" section. He works hard every day of the year, even sleeping in his fields at harvest time (to deter animals from eating the crops)...and he's happy as larry because his work irrigated his land, his work provides food for his family and some extra to trade at the market, he and his wife built their new home with their own hands, their children are going to school and he's just bought a camel, which is a sign that he's a wealthy man, a success.
That cost less than many people here spend on one component for their PC.
A little money to you is a hell of a lot to them, so you can make a difference without giving lots of money.
Giving blood is a good one more locally - you can save a life that way at no cost.
I donate to a charity that goes to desperately poor places and hires locals to do stuff like laying irrigation systems, building a well, etc, then gives them tools, seeds, animals, building materials...for them to do the work themselves. That improves their self-respect a lot more than a handout every year. It's cheaper, too - a couple of years later and they don't need any more help.
An example...when I started donating, the appeal was illustrated by a man slowly dying in a mud hut in Ethopia, wondering whether his equally starving wife or their starving, sickly children would die first, wholly dependent on handouts and, unsurprisingly, profoundly depressed at his abject failure to support his family. He had some land, but that's no use without seeds or water. Two or three years later, they were illustrating the "this is what your money does" section. He works hard every day of the year, even sleeping in his fields at harvest time (to deter animals from eating the crops)...and he's happy as larry because his work irrigated his land, his work provides food for his family and some extra to trade at the market, he and his wife built their new home with their own hands, their children are going to school and he's just bought a camel, which is a sign that he's a wealthy man, a success.
That cost less than many people here spend on one component for their PC.
A little money to you is a hell of a lot to them, so you can make a difference without giving lots of money.
Giving blood is a good one more locally - you can save a life that way at no cost.
volunteer to a charity.
They always need help. my grandparents keep trying to get me to run a Latvian orphan home.
but they always need people, for various tasks, from raising money on the street, building webpages, doing accounts. Phoning people around the world. Truckers to drive in remote locations.
They always need help. my grandparents keep trying to get me to run a Latvian orphan home.
but they always need people, for various tasks, from raising money on the street, building webpages, doing accounts. Phoning people around the world. Truckers to drive in remote locations.
One of the biggest threats to the world right now is overpopulation. It's all very well giving an ethiopian money but now he's alive and consuming resources that that country obviously couldn't supply in the first instance or he probably wouldn't have been starving.
So in the long term you've actually made the situation worse for him and his children (and yours too probably)
Ethiopias got a population in 2007 of 76.5 million and is expected to double by 2050 to nearly 166 million. It's a rocky country with poor soil that can perhaps support a population of 15-20 million comfortably, or 77 million with localised starvation, or 166 million in abject grinding poverty with 2-3 million deaths per year due to famine. Perhaps they could double again to 300 million by 2100. I'm not sure having the entire population of europe living in a desert country like Ethiopia is something we want to encourgae or pay for.
The last thing Ethiopia needs right now is aid, public health initiatives, and all the other rubbish that we in the west think is a good idea because it is only going to make the situation even worse for a larger number of people in future All things being equal if the population doubles you can expect the standard of living to halve.
Unfortunately what Ethiopia really needs are civil wars, drought and famine. Only when the population is back to a level the country can sustainably support will things improve measurably for the Ethiopian people.
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-03/Ethiopian-Population-Expected-To-Grow-by-More-than-100-Percent.cfm
So in the long term you've actually made the situation worse for him and his children (and yours too probably)
Ethiopias got a population in 2007 of 76.5 million and is expected to double by 2050 to nearly 166 million. It's a rocky country with poor soil that can perhaps support a population of 15-20 million comfortably, or 77 million with localised starvation, or 166 million in abject grinding poverty with 2-3 million deaths per year due to famine. Perhaps they could double again to 300 million by 2100. I'm not sure having the entire population of europe living in a desert country like Ethiopia is something we want to encourgae or pay for.
The last thing Ethiopia needs right now is aid, public health initiatives, and all the other rubbish that we in the west think is a good idea because it is only going to make the situation even worse for a larger number of people in future All things being equal if the population doubles you can expect the standard of living to halve.
Unfortunately what Ethiopia really needs are civil wars, drought and famine. Only when the population is back to a level the country can sustainably support will things improve measurably for the Ethiopian people.
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-03/Ethiopian-Population-Expected-To-Grow-by-More-than-100-Percent.cfm
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Rubbish, the worlds not over populated and with technology can sustain far more.
As for Ethiopia. in many cases it's the other way round, increase in population is need to create the wealth to buy the technology and education for intense farming.
As for Ethiopia. in many cases it's the other way round, increase in population is need to create the wealth to buy the technology and education for intense farming.