Comment by lotsofmangos | Hacker News Reader

Comment by lotsofmangos | Hacker News Reader

Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, please live. We need people like you.

And for whoever is reading, you can find donate buttons for MSF's ebola emergency appeal and MSF in general, if you follow the links below.

http://www.msf.org.uk/ebola

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/race-control-eb...

edit - I have no association with MSF, they just seem to be the right people to be giving money to if you want to help with this. If anyone knows of others, please suggest them.

Also, and I appreciate this is pretty rude, but I know that there are some extremely rich people who hang out on here. To those people, see if you can try and arrive at a monetary value on how scared you are of ebola arriving in your backyard, and then donate that.

I spent 2 months in Sierra Leone last year and a month working with Wellbody Alliance [1] in the impoverished mining district of Kono. So far that part of Sierra Leone has been spared from the virus but with the limited health resources in that area, it is only a matter of time.

I can personally speak for their effectiveness and tell you that your donations will actually end up in the form of medicine or medical services to someone who really needs them and not in the hands of some giant NGO that ends up swallowing 75% of what you send them for admin costs and first class tickets.

[1] http://wellbodyalliance.org/donate/

I can understand the desire to make sure your money goes towards actual programs instead of overhead, but MSF - at least in the US - is one of the better big name charities I can think of on that front.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

86% for program costs. Wellbody is at 95%, but they don't have any salaries or employee benefits listed, among other things that inevitably gobble up some small percentage of money for bigger charities.

nice thanks for that link, great site to do charity due diligence

You can also fund supplies directly to a local NGO that's responding here:

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-stop-the-ebola-epi...

Can you give me more information about them? They seem to be based in Tennessee.

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