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pilloclock · 6 months

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Link to donate to Congo !

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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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Odd jobs are few and far between in Nearobo. Peter knows because every day he walks the streets of his village in south-east Liberia looking for one. In a good month, he might make $20 (£16.70). That’s hardly enough to feed himself, let alone his children.

But today things are looking up. As part of an innovative new donation scheme, Peter receives $40 (£33.40) per month for a minimum of three years. No paperwork. No requests for receipts. No catch of any kind, in fact. Just hard cash transferred straight to his mobile phone.

The 59-year-old casual labourer plans to use the money to buy materials for a new home for himself and his family, he says. “Although it is going to take long, I will continue until my house is completed.”

The scheme is part of a new-look approach to development assistance that, if taken to scale, could potentially turn the £156bn international aid industry on its head.

At least, so says Rory Stewart, the former UK foreign secretary turned podcaster-in-chief (he co-hosts ‘The Rest is Politics’ with Alastair Campbell, a surprise hit which has topped the Apple podcast charts virtually every week since it launched a year ago). From his new base in Amman, Jordan, Stewart heads up GiveDirectly – the world’s fastest growing nonproft – who are behind the initiative.

“It’s a rather radical, simple idea to help people out of extreme poverty. We deliver the cash directly … there’s no middleman and no government getting in the way.”

It feels like an odd statement from someone who has spent much of his life in government service: first as a junior diplomat for eight years (during which he penned a bestselling book about dodging Taliban bullets and hungry wolves whilst walking across Afghanistan), followed by almost a decade as a politician at Westminster.

Pictured: Rory Stewart and GiveDirectly’s Ivan Ntwali talk with a refugee household in Rwanda. Image: GiveDirectly

His enthusiasm is even more surprising given his initial caution. During his various ministerial stints at the UK’s department for international development (including three months as secretary of state), he was an out-and-out “cash sceptic.”

Giving away money with no strings attached was, he felt at the time, an impossible sell to tax-paying voters. What’s stopping recipients spending it down the pub? Or investing in a hair-brained business venture?

Quite a lot it turns out. No one knows the value of money more than those who don’t have any, he argues. Give an impoverished mother-of-four $40 (£33.40) cash and, 99 times out of 100, she’ll spend it on something useful: repairs to the house, say, or school fees for her kids...

By virtue of GiveDirectly’s model, participants can spend their money on whatever they choose, but the charity’s research indicates that most goes towards food, medical and education expenses, durables, home improvement and social events.

On the flipside, Stewart also has numerous examples of well-funded aid projects that deliver next to nothing. A decade ago, the then United Nations general secretary Ban Ki-moon estimated that 30 per cent of aid money disappears in corruption. There is little to suggest much has changed.

The aid industry doesn’t need corrupt officials to see its funds evaporate, however; it has its own voluminous bureaucracy. Stewart recalls once visiting a $40,000 (£33,560) water and sanitation project in a school in an unnamed African country. The ‘deliverables’ were two brick latrines and five red buckets for storing water...

The beauty of direct giving, he stresses, is not just that it annuls opportunities for thievery and red tape; it also frees the world’s poorest individuals from the well-meaning but, very often, misplaced guidance of donors. An aid expert in Brussels or Washington DC may well have a PhD in development economics, but who is best to judge what a single mother in a Kinshasa slum needs most and how to obtain it most cheaply: the expert with her degree, or the mother with her hungry children?

Empowering recipients to decide for themselves helps end the kind of “mad world” where aid agencies pay to ship wheat from Idaho, US, to Antananarivo, Madagascar, only for local people to sell it in order to buy what they really want, Stewart reasons.

“So often, these communities are having to turn the goods we send them into cash anyway, but just in a very inefficient and wasteful fashion … instead [with direct cash transfers] they are given the choice and freedom in how to spend it.”

Pictured: Villagers in Kilif, Kenya, at a public meeting about the GiveDirectly programme. Image: GiveDirectly

Is the system perfect? No, clearly not. Stewart concedes that opportunities for fraud and coercion exist. To minimise these risks, GiveDirectly employs field officers to meet face-to-face with recipients, as well as a team of telephone handlers and internal auditors to follow up on reports of irregularity.

By his reckoning, however, the biggest impediment to direct giving really taking off is donor reticence. At present, only 2 per cent of official aid is given direct in cash. Stewart thinks it should be closer to 60 or 70 per cent...

‘My children will not have to beg anymore’

Happiness Kadzmila from Malawi enrolled on GiveDirectly’s Basic Income project last summer. She will now receive $50 (£41) a month for a year ($600/£496 in total).

What are the biggest hardships you’ve faced in life?

I am a divorced mother of four children. I got divorced in 2020 while I was eight months pregnant with my last-born child. Since then, I have been depending on working on other people’s farms. I get paid $0.49 (£0.43), or a plate of maize flour per day. As a result, it has been a challenge to feed my children, buy clothes for them, and to pay their school fees My firstborn child is in year 4, the school charges $0.69 (£0.61) per day for her. My second is in year 3, I pay $0.49 (£0.43) for him. There were days when I would have no food in my home, and my children would go to my neighbours’ homes to beg for food. This made me feel sorry for my children as a mother.

What does receiving this money mean for you?

I was so happy the day I received cash amounting to $51.75 (£43.56) from GiveDirectly. I used the money to buy maize at $9.88 (£8.32). My children will not have to go to our neighbours to beg for food anymore. I also bought a sheep at $34.58 (£29.10). I will be selling sheep in future when they multiply. I also bought lotion and soap at $1.88 (£1.58).

How will you spend your future payments?

I plan to renovate my house. I have always admired those who sleep in houses made of a roof with iron sheets because they do not have to think of fetching grass every year for a new roof. I will also start a business selling doughnuts to sustain my income after I receive my last transfer. I did not know that an organisation like GiveDirectly would come to help me this way All I can say to those who are giving us this money is ‘thank you’."

-via Positive News, 3/3/23

More and More People to Help

In addition to their universal basic income programs, GiveDirectly also has dedicated programs where you can donate to emergency disaster relief, people living under the protracted civil war and human rights disaster in Yemen, refugees, and survivors of the Syria-Turkey earthquake.

They have also commissioned a number of large-scale, third-party studies on the effectiveness of their numerous universal basic income models. Find these and other projects here.

#charity #donations #foreign aid #extreme poverty #poverty #economic inequality #africa #yemen #syria #turkey #malawi #kenya #rwanda #refugees #refugee crisis #givedirectly #universal basic income #good news #hope

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triumph-of-adaptation · 4 months

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Please consider donating to my friend’s gofundme, or at least sharing the link. Her grandparents, aunty, uncle and their two 3-year-old children are stuck in Port Sudan, they are facing death or worse and need urgent help to flee. I know everyone is worn out from all the horrific crimes being committed around the world right now but please, this is really important.

#Sudan #Sudanese #fundraiser #boost #signal boost #refugee #human rights #war #Africa #aid #donate #port Sudan #humanitarian relief #gofundme #Coptic #auspol #Australia refugee #Egyptian

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thepastisalreadywritten · 1 month

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#Endangered African penguin #African penguin #penguin #seabird #adoption #donation #incubation #Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB)#penguin egg #Adopt A Penguin Egg #Cape Town #South Africa #conservation #rehabilitation #Easter Campaign #Happy Easter #Easter Sunday

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tomboyjessie13 · 5 months

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Hey guys, I want to give a shout out to @godwin5mizo because they needed help.

Here's a link to their pinned post, it'll explain the situation better:

Basically, there's medical issues going on in Kenya, especially among LGBT Kenyans, and they needed donations for medical supplies.

#donations #help #kenya #africa

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peenballs3000 · 1 month

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Hey guys! This is a QR code thats takes you to a GoFundMe, and its for refugees over in Africa! Its run by Muwonge Quotaish and they’re trying to gather money to feed and care for the people in Kakuma camp. Even a dollar or two would help a lot!

If I see an increase in money and donations i’ll draw whatever you people desire, just donate and then comment what you’d like to see!

Here’s the link if needed too: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtiq-refugees-in-kuakuma-turkana-kenya

Anything helps!!! Even just sharing to have more people see it.

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dazedasian · 1 day

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pact-missionaries · 1 month

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Empower African communities with love, hope, and the gospel through PACT Missionaries. Join us in making a real difference today for a brighter, more inclusive future!

#charity #fundraising #fundrasier #donation for africa #donate to south africa #pact missionaries charity organization

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art-and-yaknowww · 2 months

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https://gofund.me/8dc015ec

Please share to help my friend a d brother Landing secure food, rent and care for himself, 3 siblings and grandma!

#signal boost #share #gofundme #humanity #gambia #africa #send help #help #donate if you can #please donate #please reblog #collective care

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ethereyel · 1 year

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Hey friends! 💗 Please help me to raise money for my beautiful friend Samba and his family living in Gambia 🙏🏻

Meeting Samba and speaking to him about his life in Gambia has opened my eyes to the reality of living in an impoverished area; the lifestyle requires more work than we do during our usual work life here in the west, and the work they must put in just to have enough to support their family is hard work, and never ending.

Samba lives with his 3 brothers, John, James and Peter. He also helps to support some of the orphaned children in his village; Musa, Lamin, Mariama, David, Samwel and Patrick. They are his family.

We all deserve the right to have access to sufficient food, clean water and shelter, but unfortunately not everyone has easy access to these things like we are so blessed to have.

Please take some time to consider what you can spare for Samba and his gorgeous family, even a small donation will make a world of difference 🙏🏻♥️

#one love #heart centred #heart centred beings #love wins #third world #Gambia #the Gambia #west Africa #the Gambia west Africa #charity #donation #donate

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pilloclock · 6 months

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PRO PALESTINIANS 🇵🇸 we must also bring awareness to Congo ! They are going through a silent genocide

LINK TO DONATE ⬇️ to fund doctors who will directly help women who are being r@ped daily and help them heal physically so they can have dignity and as normal a life as humanly possible

What is happening is barbaric and disgusting and I’m ashamed that I have only just learnt about this so recently. I’m sure like me none of you knew about this either (in the West) but now we know we have to talk about it. Keep talking about Palestine but talk about Congo too and Sudan

#Congo #help Congo #donate to Congo #congolese #awareness #lgbt against genocide #silent genocide #donate #donate to Africa #aftica #black lives matter #share #share this #please help #please donate #pro palestine #pro Palestinians pro Congo #help Congo help Palestine

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mantisgodsdomain · 1 year

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Today's reminder that the block button is a free resource that can be used on anyone and anything that you don't care to find on your dashboard.

#we speak #and yes as always this includes us. cross-platform even!#followed an artist today for Cool Art and then they put “fuck ao3 and fuck you if you donate to ao3” content on our dash #and like. we do generally enjoy having fanfiction hosted for free on a website run by fic authors for fic authors #and no offence but we do enjoy having a profit-free platform where we can read and write about “edgy” topics if we so please #they need to host those servers somehow and wishes and pixie dust dont power servers #call us spoiled but we do think ao3 dot com can have a few dollars and the “starving children in africa” arguments are still bad #we hope to make it extremely clear on this blog that our stance is “all art has a right to exist even if we dont like it”#and if you dont want to see that or us on your dash then the block button is Right There!#curate your social media experience and just block a guy. thank you for your attention

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turnipshepard · 5 months

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Anyway I’m on my way to Africa for two weeks and then I’m flying back here for a day before heading home for a month. So much plane time :(

#I have been guilt donating to environmental causes like crazy because this is so much flying #but in my defense I didn’t choose to go to Africa I got told

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thejnlc · 1 year

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The Disability Sign World has recently launched the Animal Raising Project. The Project Objective is to support people with disability and their families with animal rearing as a sustainable source of income to improve their livelihoods and to raise their standards of living. Project participants receive livestock, cows goats and chickens as well as animal raising training to enable them to raise income needed for a sustainable living. Looking after and providing opportunities for the most vulnerable in our community is important to the Disability Sign World (DSW). Disability Sign World (DSW) is a non-profit Organization Working with Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) alongside Vulnerable and Street Children in Uganda to enhance inclusion. FOR DONATIONS SUPPORT & PERSONAL VISIT, CONTACT US: +256703227125 VISIT: www.disabilitysignworld.org EMAIL: [email protected] LOCATED: Kabale District, Western Uganda SOCIAL MEDIA ---------- TWITTER : www.twitter.com/DisabilitySign INSTAGRAM : www.instagram.com/disabilitysignworld FACEBOOK : www.facebook.com/disabilitysignworld TUMBLR : www.tumblr.com/disabilitysignworld #DisabilitySignWorld #love #donate #donorlove #fundraising #followme #love #visituganda #follow #explore #beautiful #travel #uganda #safari #exploreuganda #africa #tour #photography #photooftheday #instatravel #instagood #picoftheday #pearlofafrica #gofundme #happy #like #instagram #likeforlikes #kampala #likes Improving the lives of PWDS https://www.instagram.com/p/CpRjdjWDFwd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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myeyeontheworld · 1 year

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Repost from @ Thekgase Kobe who volunteers his time in the Rondebult Community, Ekurhuleni. Thekgase has been a selfless volunteer with Hope SA Foundation since 2020. Community comes first. Today 7th March 2023 Ward 41 Ekurhuleni community enjoyed a delicious hot meal made at Thava Indian Restaurant and special treat of Danone UltraMel 1l custard. Hope SA Foundation Together With Namritha Sivsanker, Always Supporting Ward 41 with cooked food,vegetables,kids toys also supporting women with sanitary towels. Modimo Ke Woooooo Namritha ��👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️.We managed to feed 200 community members today👏👏👏❤️❤️ Thank you for your contributions and support. Hope SA Foundation feeds communities of all races and religion. Please support our Poverty alleviation Drives and donate at www.hopesa.org #food #poverty #africa #southafrica #unemployment #EconomicChallenges #ngo #donate #wef #wfp #un #sdgs World Food Programme #HopeSA #hope https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpf1RIQK6Cm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#food #poverty #africa #southafrica #unemployment #economicchallenges #ngo #donate #wef #wfp #un #sdgs #hopesa #hope

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peenballs3000 · 8 days

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Ever wondered what it’s like to live in a tent?

As of today, April 22nd in 2024, there are multiple people in South Sudan living this lifestyle. Not by choice. They are hungry, they have children, they need help. They spend their lives in this Refugee camp because they have nowhere else to go. It is difficult to live a “normal life” having to struggle for basic necessities such as beds, feminine hygiene products, food, etc… please help them. Even a two dollar donation would mean a lot.

#punk #sudan crisis #keep eyes on sudan #south sudan #africa #camping tents #unrwa #unrwafunding #lgtbqia+#lgtbq community #lgtbtq #lgtbiq+#houselessness #displacement #donations #help #socialism #free sudan #queer solidarity

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