Top-rated Charity GiveDirectly’s exciting new initiative

One of the world’s top rated charities, GiveDirectly, has just launched an exciting new initiative to help refugees overseas.

Uganda is a country which in 2016 took in more refugees than any other in the world—including the whole of Europe at the height of the crisis—although it is not making headlines.

Despite very limited resouces, Uganda has very progressive policies that have granted its 1.4 million refugees basic rights (like education, work, freedom to leave their settlements and own property and apply for citizenship) to help them rebuild their lives.

The major thing that holds them back is lack of capital to get a start.

GiveDirectly has launched its new program—after a successful pilot project—to make substantial lump sum cash payments to refugees and neighbouring support communities in Uganda. The program has been very carefully designed to have maximum impact, using a proven model of aid delivery (including follow up research) that has been independently evaluated and recommended by one of the world’s leading independent charity evaluators, GiveWell.

The underlying philosophy of GiveDirectly is one of maximum transparency in its operations and maximum empowerment of the people it seeks to help. It believes that the people who are desperately in need of our financial assistance know best how to use it, without any strings attached. And all the evidence supports their faith that recipients use the money they are given wisely and effectively to rebuild their lives.

GiveDirectly is seeking public support to make this project a success. Donors can be very confident that their money is getting to the people who need it most and is making a real difference to their lives.

For more information go to: https://givedirectly.org/refugees