This is quite interesting ( I have met quite a few people who have done aid work in Africa—Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast and more) , and I sometimes wonder about political instability and conflict in some of these areas—its not everywhere, but does exist in other areas.
I am in contact with a person who basically is director of a small educational/permaculture (agriculture, tree planting) center in a village in Malawi (mostly focusing on orphans and girls) --he is part of a FB group I’m on (which has to do with ecology, sustainability and complex systems theory). He does ask for donations to his project (and they were hit hard by floods earlier this year, and operate on a ‘shoestring budget’ according to what I have read—they usually need donations for building materials, sometimes seeds, bicycles or a motorcycle , a computer and printer, internet connection, etc ).
I wonder if this project would be eligible for funding from Givedirectly. They tend to need small amounts (sometimes they operate on 5$/day). I also don’t really know if these campaigns (there are others on that FB page—eg one in Burundi) are ‘real’ . Others in the FB group have vetted them so I accept that view.
The person in that campaign told me over internet that he hasn’t heard of this Givedirectly project, and also that Mzuzu is far from his village.
GiveDirectly really only funds one thing: direct cash transfers. By keeping their operations very simple and streamlined, they’re able to work more efficiently. Your contact might be able to find support from other funders who specialize in projects like his, but GiveDirectly doesn’t have the infrastructure in place to support and monitor a project of that kind (at least, as I understand their functioning).
Thanks for info. Its possible his village would be eligible for participation in the cash transfer program, but that is really a larger scale and different kind of project.
This is quite interesting ( I have met quite a few people who have done aid work in Africa—Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast and more) , and I sometimes wonder about political instability and conflict in some of these areas—its not everywhere, but does exist in other areas.
I am in contact with a person who basically is director of a small educational/permaculture (agriculture, tree planting) center in a village in Malawi (mostly focusing on orphans and girls) --he is part of a FB group I’m on (which has to do with ecology, sustainability and complex systems theory). He does ask for donations to his project (and they were hit hard by floods earlier this year, and operate on a ‘shoestring budget’ according to what I have read—they usually need donations for building materials, sometimes seeds, bicycles or a motorcycle , a computer and printer, internet connection, etc ).
I wonder if this project would be eligible for funding from Givedirectly. They tend to need small amounts (sometimes they operate on 5$/day). I also don’t really know if these campaigns (there are others on that FB page—eg one in Burundi) are ‘real’ . Others in the FB group have vetted them so I accept that view.
The person in that campaign told me over internet that he hasn’t heard of this Givedirectly project, and also that Mzuzu is far from his village.
GiveDirectly really only funds one thing: direct cash transfers. By keeping their operations very simple and streamlined, they’re able to work more efficiently. Your contact might be able to find support from other funders who specialize in projects like his, but GiveDirectly doesn’t have the infrastructure in place to support and monitor a project of that kind (at least, as I understand their functioning).
Thanks for info. Its possible his village would be eligible for participation in the cash transfer program, but that is really a larger scale and different kind of project.