Part 1) How should the money be spent? Identify critical areas for relief
Part 2) Support the idea that Charities are the most effective way to provide for relief.
Part 3) Research several Charities based on their expertise in the
region, and cost efficiency (How much of each dollar goes to relief).
1) I think that the money raised should go to provide safe drinking water to the people in need. Nobody can live without clean water so I believe it is the most pressing issue that the money should go towards.
2) Charities are able to collect large amounts of money to group up and spend on what is needed to save lives. They also have a set goal for what the money is being spent on and are able to find the resources to make things happen. One person can't do too much with 20$, but if 100 people all donate 20$ to the same charity, 2000$ can go a lot farther.
3) At the student council trip to Seaside, a speaker from the organization the thirst project came to speak to us about building wells in Africa for clean water. However, it is their hope that someday the whole world will be able to have access to clean, safe drinking water on demand. The cost to build a freshwater well in the developing nations ranges from $7,800 in Uganda to $20,000 in Kenya. As far as I know, they have not done any work outside of Africa so it would be interesting to see how much one freshwater well would cost in the Philippines.
http://www.thirstproject.org/the-solution/
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