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What are the different things and ways in which you can donate?

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Shubhankar Kulkarni Aug 26, 2020

donation altruism

Creative contributions

Solve other people's problems and donate solutions to them

Darko Savic Aug 26, 2020

Technical volunteering in tough times

Subash Chapagain Oct 11, 2020

Dr Aviskar Chapagain5 months ago

Shubhankar Kulkarni5 months ago

Great work Subash! Kudos to the three-membered team. I am trying to extract the things you donated from the volunteering work. "Time" is surely one of the things. The second is "expertise". You knew how to set up a lab, how to grow cultures, and how to identify E. coli. Here lies your expertise. Expertise is acquired by spending a lot of time, energy, and experience. Therefore, expertise does not linearly depend on time and can be mentioned as a separate thing that you donate. When there are fewer people who can do the same job as you, your work does not linearly depend on time. The third is, as Darko suggested in one of the earlier suggestions, "brainpower". You understood that the damaged drainage system and unavailability of latrines contributed to the problem. You also thought of what could be done and suggested to the officials to distribute water-purifying tablets. All of this falls under donating "brainpower".

empathy (time) and vulnerability

Martina Pesce Oct 16, 2020

Donate by being of influence, creating awareness

Nivari Van der Voorde Nov 15, 2020

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Shubhankar Kulkarni3 months ago

Nivari Van der Voorde3 months ago

I think that a lot of things that are protested for, are things we already know. It just goes to the back of our minds again as we are caught up in our own lives. So bringing it back to the front seems to me different the just sharing knowledge, what do you think?

Take the example of the parents of Madeleine McCann. At some point the whole world knew that this little girl was missing, but by keeping the subject alive in the press they gained a continuously awareness around this, that new updates on the case still appear 13 years later on the news. 

It was not the parents just sharing their knowledge, it was their influential network that made the change. Almost a strategy I would say. I also use this on my social media, to create a synergy of more knowledge together. So yes knowledge, but with a strategy that creates a lot more awareness. 

Knowledge (not linearly correlated with time)

Shubhankar Kulkarni Aug 26, 2020

Work (time)

Darko Savic Oct 08, 2020

Donate knowledge

Dr Aviskar Chapagain Oct 12, 2020

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Can we achieve "pure" altruism?

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What are the different things and ways in which you can donate?

Creative contributions

Solve other people's problems and donate solutions to them

Technical volunteering in tough times

empathy (time) and vulnerability

Donate by being of influence, creating awareness

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Donate knowledge

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Can we achieve "pure" altruism?

What are the different things and ways in which you can donate?

Creative contributions

Solve other people's problems and donate solutions to them

Technical volunteering in tough times

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Donate by being of influence, creating awareness

Knowledge (not linearly correlated with time)

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Donate knowledge

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