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People in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives β cash enables that choice. Cash has no shipping costs: your donation is delivered directly to a person in poverty via mobile money with support from in-country staff, not subcontractors or middle-men. Unlike other forms of aid, cash can efficiently scale to reach and transform hundreds of millions of lives. When I received the transfers, I embarked on installing a fresh water tap which has really helped me plus my community members as they no longer walk long distances to fetch clean water.
When my husband, Khamsi, received our first two transfers, we started to eat more healthy food, and we were able to take care of ourselves and our five children. Ghala and I have been recovering day after day. My palms would get burnt and the smoke was not good for my health. With the transfers, I rented a farm where I planted maize, soybeans, and sweet potatoes. I stopped making and selling charcoal and will be able to sell my harvest to make money. We are investing the money into a house.
So I used my transfer to buy a freezer to freeze the fish so I can sell more when demand is high. Sign up and stay informed about stories from recipients, exclusive event invites, research updates. Poverty Relief. Basic Income. Emergency Relief. We worked with researchers to compare the impacts of a short-term UBI vs.
These results look at just the first two years, when all three groups had received roughly the same amount of money. People impacted by a crisis prefer cash relief over in-kind aid e. However, responders are not pivoting from in-kind aid fast enoughβ¦. We ran pilots to send cash remotely to flood survivors: in Nigeria, we sent funds to survivors weeks after flooding and in Mozambique, we sent funds days before predicted floods.
