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to choose how best to improve their lives.

Leonard & Mercy in Malawi

Giving cash is

Help someone transform their life.

Ndiwo’s parents couldn’t afford to send him to high school. With $197, he was able to re-enroll and buy farm equipment. He’s saving the profits to study engineering at a university.

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Help without conditions.

People in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives — cash enables that choice.

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Help that works – and lasts.

There are 300+ studies on cash transfers – making it one of the most-studied aid interventions. Cash has been shown to drive a range of impacts, even 5+ years after a transfer.

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Help that is efficient and direct.

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.

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Help end extreme poverty.

The resources to close the poverty gap for 700M+ people already exist – they’re just not reaching those in greatest need. Unlike other forms of aid, cash can efficiently scale to reach and transform hundreds of millions of lives.

“Giving $1,000 to poor families lowered infant mortality rates by nearly half, and deaths in children under 5 by 45 percent… The decline in infant mortality is a ‘show-stopping result.’”

“This simple model is disrupting the traditional charity sector by cutting out the NGO middle man.”

“The most innovative companies in the not-for-profit space for 2025”

“Why billionaires like MacKenzie Scott and Jack Dorsey are donating millions to this nonprofit that gives cash to the poor”

“[GiveDirectly’s] investment in fast payment technologies. . . is a large part of how quickly they can deliver donations directly to recipients.”

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“GiveDirectly uses a rigorous, data-driven model to oversee the entire transfer process end-to-end — without a middleman or partner charity.”

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Hawa invested in farming and restarted construction on her home

"When I received the money, I invested in farming. I paid people to brush, clean, and plant cassava. With the rest of the money, I traveled to where I have a foundation that stopped several years ago because I did not have the money to continue with the project."

Hawa in Liberia

Didier upgraded his barbershop and doubled his income

"When I arrived in Kenya from Congo as a refugee in 2008, life was a struggle. The transfers allowed me to improve my shop. My income has risen to $400 per month. I even hired another employee. This move has contributed to the increase in my earnings."

Didier in Kenya

Francoise started a sewing business and is returning to school

"I got pregnant when I was seventeen years old and dropped out of school. I used $70 to buy a sack of beans as a way to save money profitably and purchased a sewing machine for $150. With the remaining cash, I saved it to buy school materials because I wanted to go back to school."

Francoise in Rwanda

Mirriam paid her daughter's school fees and grew her business

"As any single mother, after my divorce, all I thought of was how I would provide for my children. With the second transfer, I bought iron sheets, a bicycle and clothes for my last born. My greatest achievement so far has been paying school fees for my daughter."

Mirriam in Malawi

Denis bought a motorcycle for his boda boda business

"I got my first transfer of $120 in September 2022, I saved it and waited for the second transfer with a plan to purchase a motorcycle. I got one on sale at $600 and purchased it. I majestically rode to the GiveDirectly office to show them how the transfers have changed my life."

Denis in Uganda

Rabeca built a brick house and powered it with solar

"From an early age my life was marked by a lack of money. With the transfers, I realized my dream of building a brick house. I was also able to buy a solar panel which has brought light into our lives! Now my children can do their schoolwork at night without any difficulty."

Rabeca in Mozambique

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$1B+ delivered to people across three continents

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Explore highlights from the field

Study: Giving cash to mothers cut infant deaths in half

A randomized study in Kenya found that giving families a $1,000 GiveDirectly cash transfer cut infant deaths by 48%, and now GiveDirectly is launching a new program with a Kenyan community health provider to deliver cash to more expectant mothers and maximize these life-saving impacts.

Switching to more cash aid would help millions in 2025

Maximizing the portion of humanitarian aid given as cash from 20% to 50% could mean directly helping ~2.7 million more people this year without spending more.

Explain AI/ML systems to people in poverty using real-world scenarios

GiveDirectly collaborated with researchers and local teams to refine how we explain our AI-driven payment system, finding that scenario-based examples resonate best with recipients.

How GiveDirectly prevents, addresses, and reports risks

GiveDirectly publishes an annual report on fraud, harm, and safety incidents, reflecting our increased investment in safeguarding and commitment to transparency.

More people in poverty get cash when we work with governments

GiveDirectly is partnering with the governments of Malawi and Rwanda to run cash transfer programs integrated with both countries’ wider development plans, creating a path to accelerating the end of extreme poverty.

UBI recipient Joyce — Joyce, UBI recipient in Kenya

Early findings from the world’s largest UBI study

We worked with researchers to compare the impacts of a short-term UBI vs. long-term UBI vs. lump sum transfer. These results look at just the first two years, when all three groups had received roughly the same amount of money.

Badege & Mukagasana cash out with a mobile money agent in Rwanda

The power of getting a mobile phone

16% of Africans do not live within reach of a mobile network, with the biggest gaps in the poorest regions due to a lack of demand. Our project reaching 15K families in Kiryandongo, Uganda motivated two telcos to extend coverage and mobile money agents to the area…

Sharing stories of poverty but not ‘poverty porn’

People in poverty are often documented without their consent. GiveDirectly only documents recipients with their formal consent, or in the case of minors, both their and their parents’ consent. They opt to sign a plain-language form translated into local languages…

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