Two crazy-ish charitable global poverty project ideas
I am writing up two crazy-ish charity ideas I’ve wanted to investigate, but haven’t been able to, in the hopes someone will investigate them further.
Wrong ideas strongly held
Anyone can deceive with statistics, not everyone can tell a good anecdote.
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