altruism

Reviewing the charities annual reports

This is a follow up to [this](blog.nyman.re/2025/08/2… and this. So we’re continuing the quest to figure if it’s realistic for a normal person in the tech industry to do a life-saving donation. Let’s look closer at the charities listed last time by reading their yearly reports. Medeor’s report for 2024 Overall a very good report. Very transparent. From this we can read that they have received, around 34 million in funding.

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Finding a charity where you can see the impact

This is a follow up to the previous one where we defined the question. Read that first Can I make a direct life saving impact to someone, where my action, with a high degree of probability, leads to the survival of someone who might otherwise not have survived. If the action is a donation, and the answer is Yes, and I have the means. Then I want to do it.

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What can YOU do?

The world is a big place. Really big. There are a lot of people in it. And because there are so many people, it means there are a lot of people who, at this moment needs help. So what can you do? A lot. That’s a too wide question. Let’s narrow it down to a very specific question. Can you save the life of someone in need? Again, yes, there are lots of ways you could, but also a lot of ways which won’t work.

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