Forbes
Flipping traditional aid schemes on their head, GiveDirectly has been handing out cash grants—with no strings attached—for more than a decade. In 2020, it became the fastest-growing nonprofit in the world.
Sitting on a wooden bench in a remote village in Rwanda, a 47-year-old woman named Esther, a mother of three, explains how she’ll spend more than 850,000 Rwandan francs. It’s a life-changing sum—roughly $850, equivalent to more than a year’s wages—in the form of a grant paid out over two months from New York-based nonprofit GiveDirectly.
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