it's the most sensible and practical thing anyone can do.

"...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." - George Elliot, Middlemarch

I have traveled in very many third world countries and seen raw poverty close up. Now I can help those whose daily lives have little in common with mine.