During a recent discussion on effective altruism, a friend shared she’s spending approximately $7 a month for Ratricia, a Gambian pouched rat under training by Belgian nonprofit Apopo to detect landmines in Tanzania.
The commitment was personal: The giver is an animal lover. She also thinks demining is a neglected issue, and finds the strategy employed by Apopo as seemingly low-cost and high impact.
This is the same across all her charitable givings; she donates to the Free Yezidi Foundation as a way to help the thousands singled out by the Islamic State group in Sinjar, Iraq, as well as to UNICEF to meet her desire to help children in need.