Consider making the same donation to Watsi[1].
Your gift will go where you know it will do something meaningful (not that Barlow's health isn't meaningful, but the impact for a child vs. an older adult is vastly higher).
It also doesn't help matters when it shuts down people's soup kitchens for bureaucratic "violations", threatening them with prosecution, and makes laws banning "public food sharing".
Your donations go directly into the John Perry Barlow
Wellness Trust and will be applied to the following
expenses:
- Concierge physicians – the complexity of his condition
demands a level of attentiveness that traditional primary
care doctors are unable to provide
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- ... & dedicated medical advocacy in the hospital – with
extremely compromised mobility and unpredictable shifts
in health status, it is vital that he has the consistent
support of skilled caregivers