Video overview – 2024 recommended charities 

This video gives a high level overview of our 2024 recommended charities, and a walkthrough of our new groundbreaking research reports.

The charities cover these cause areas:

• • 🍏 Nutrition – Treating acute malnutrition in children (Taimaka)
  • 👶 Parenting – Improving child development by enriching parenting practices (Reach Up)
  • 🚨 Crime – Using psychotherapy and cash transfers to reduce crime in Liberia (NEPI)
  • ⚠️ Lead poisoning – Preventing lead exposure in Ghana (Pure Earth)
  • 🧠 Psychotherapy – An updated analysis of the impact of treating depression in low income countries (StrongMinds and Friendship Bench) 

Video timetamps 

0:00 Introduction
1:55 How do we make the biggest difference with what we have to give?
2:15 The challenge – how to choose between so many things?
3:48 The method – our approach to this challenge
5:35 A new idea?
6:47 What are we doing about this?

8:55 How do we evaluate causes and charities? Our charity evaluation process
10:09 What have we found? Our first evaluation – cash transfers via Give Directly
12:05 Deworming charities
13:17 Antimalarial bednets via Against Malaria Foundation

15:01 What about treating depression?  StrongMinds and Friendship Bench
19:05 Our search for (even) better charities and interventions in 2024
20:05 Psychotherapy 2024 updates

24:55 New promising charities
25:15 Pure Earth – promising charity 1, working to eliminate lead poisoning
30:05 Taimaka – promising charity 2, working to address child malnutrition
33:51 icddr,b – promising charity 3, working to support parents with the Reach Up programme
36:15 NEPI – promising charity 4, working to reduce reoffending in Liberia through CBT and cash transfers

39:45 Not currently recommended charity – Fortify Health, working to combat anaemia through iron fortification in flour
40:17 Recommendation overview of charities reviewed by HLI in 2024
41:15 What you can do

Find out more

Learn more about the charities we recommend.

Get more in-depth information about the research supporting our charity recommendations.