What should we do to help Afghanistan: A brief summary

Tony Wang
2 min readAug 18, 2021

The world is focused on Afghan now and everyone feel sympathetic for its people. Here is some information I collected. I hope it can help you make well-informed donations.

Rescue plane at Kabul Airport

Donate to help ①

  1. Save the Children

Charity ratings: Charity watch groups name us as a top-rated children’s charity among other children’s charities and non-profit organizations. Included among these charity rankings are a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, an A rating from GenderFair and an A- rating from CharityWatch.

Annual reports: https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/node/18345/pdf/save_the_children_annual_review_2019_0.pdf

2. International Rescue Committee (IRC)

The IRC does not effective policy in BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s accountability standards.

It is endorsed by many top Charity Watchdogs. https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/135660870

Related to EA community https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/ruth-levine-and-caitlin-tulloch-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-evidence/

Real project: Cash Transfer have a wide range of cost efficiency, from a minimum of 14 cents for every dollar transferred up to $1.32 for every dollar transferred. For your reference, a very cost-effective NGO, GiveDirectly, transfer1 dollar at the cost of about 20 cents(17/83) according to Givewell.

Support Afghanistan Women ③

  1. Afghan Women’s Education Center

Endorsed by TIMES(see reference for more information). Impact unquantified since no concrete research is available.

  1. Women for Afghan Women

Endorsed by TIMES(see reference for more information). Impact unquantified since no concrete research is available.

Get Afghanistan out by plane ④

Cost effectiveness: 100k for 200 lives predicted by a EA fellow. The project is organized by hawn VanDiver, director of a chapter of the Truman National Security Project.

Reference

  1. How can I help Afghanistan? ① https://www.rescue.org/article/how-can-i-help-afghanistan?amp

2. Save the Children ② https://www.savethechildren.org/us/where-we-work/afghanistan

3. TIMES ③ https://time.com/6090921/how-to-help-afghanistan-people/

4. EA forum ④ https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/A96G6tpkTwwbdftFG/time-sensitive-potentially-high-impact-opportunity-to-help

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Tony Wang

I am currently a UG at HKU, study statistics and computer science. Economics also attracts me a lot. You can also call me a active effective altruism practioner