The Best Charity Isn't What You Think
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How to help thousands per dollar
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. —Proverbs 31:8 (I think this is one of the most important articles I’ve ever written, so I’d appreciate if you could like and share it! Thanks!) Imagine that you came across 1,500 shrimp about to be painfully killed. They were going to be thrown onto ice where slowly, agonizingly, over the course of 20 minutes, they’d suffocate and freeze to death at the same time, a bit like suffocating in a suitcase in the middle of Antarctica. Imagine them struggling, gasping, without enough air, fighting for their lives, but it’s…
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