If not, One for the World at UW-Madison is the place for you! Surprisingly, saving a life is not difficult at all. We estimate that it costs only $4,500 to save one life through the most effective charities!
Every day, over 13,100 children die due to preventable, poverty-related causes This is a big and overwhelming number to imagine and even conceptualize. To reduce this number, One for the World partners with four effective charities:
This charity distributes preventive antimalarial drugs to children 3-59 months old to prevent illness and death from malaria during peak malaria transmission season, at $7 per treatment
New Incentives increases the uptake of routine immunizations through cash transfers, raising public awareness of the benefits of vaccination and reducing the frequency of vaccine stockouts, it costs around $17 to vaccinate a child
The Helen Keller Internationals Vitamin A Supplementation Program prevents childhood blindness and death at only $1 per Vitamin A supplement
Against Malaria Fondation distributes and monitors antimalarial bed nets at a total cost of $2 per net
With some easy steps, you can be on your way to saving lives.