I gave because I was moved by the stories of extreme poverty I heard when I recently visited Kenya (one of the countries GiveDirectly delivers donations to): kids having to steal 50 cents in order to eat, kids not having money to buy shoes and having to walk to school barefoot.

UBI helps alleviate extreme poverty.

The Amazon is home to thousands of Indigenous and frontline communities, and critical to global climate regulation. The continued financing and investment in oil and gas activity in the region by major European and American banks is contributing to the destruction of the rainforest and our climate. Since 1996, Amazon Watch has protected the rainforest and advanced the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. They partner with Indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems. In the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, Amazon Watch is working directly with Indigenous communities to build local capacity and advance the long-term protection of their lands.

UNICEF is reaching children in Somalia and is using all avenues available get supplies into some of the hardest-hit areas. UNICEF is the single largest agency delivering therapeutic and supplementary nutrition services in Somalia and has mounted a massive scale up of its operations. Somalia is the Horn of Africa's most drought-stricken country. Extreme drought has affected about 3.2 million people, with 245,000 relocated in search of food, water, and pasture. Water scarcity and lack of access to sanitation and hygiene facilities have heightened the risk of disease outbreaks, particularly in IDP camps and conflict areas. Desertification, increasing urbanization, hunger and malnutrition are all impacts of climate change.

The International Rescue Committee, is working in the Mudug region of central Somalia. Somalia is the Horn of Africa's most drought-stricken country. Extreme drought has affected about 3.2 million people, with 245,000 relocated in search of food, water, and pasture. Water scarcity and lack of access to sanitation and hygiene facilities have heightened the risk of disease outbreaks, particularly in IDP camps and conflict areas. Desertification, increasing urbanization, hunger and malnutrition are all impacts of climate change.

Mercy-USA for Aid and Development has been working in Somalia since 1993. Somalia is the Horn of Africa's most drought-stricken country. Extreme drought has affected about 3.2 million people, with 245,000 relocated in search of food, water, and pasture. Water scarcity and lack of access to sanitation and hygiene facilities have heightened the risk of disease outbreaks, particularly in IDP camps and conflict areas. Desertification, increasing urbanization, hunger and malnutrition are all impacts of climate change.

#Somalia is the Horn of #Africa's most drought-stricken country. Extreme drought has affected about 3.2 million people, with 245,000 relocated in search of food, water, and pasture. Water scarcity and lack of access to sanitation and hygiene facilities have heightened the risk of disease outbreaks, particularly in #IDP camps and conflict areas. Dessertification, increasing urbanization, hunger and malnutrition are all impacts of climate change.

I'd like the money I donate be used to do the most good possible.

I would like the whole world to go to a universal basic income (UBI) system and this is a great start.

Delivering unconditional cash directly to the world's poorest households via secure mobile transfers. 

Since 2009, GiveDirectly has delivered more than $580 million in unconditional cash transfers to families in need. These one-time cash transfers allow recipients to invest in what they need most and have been shown to improve their earnings, children’s school attendance, health, nutrition, and mental well-being.
 
GiveDirectly uses government data to target villages where most or all residents are living in extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as earning under $2.15/day. In-country GiveDirectly staff enroll one member of each household in the entire village to receive a one-time transfer of about $1,000 USD sent in two installments using mobile money. Recipients can then withdraw the mobile funds as cash with local agents and use the funds to invest in what they need – whether it’s on starting a business, education, making their home safer/sturdier, healthcare, or livestock.
 
GiveDirectly uses rigorous experimental research (randomized controlled trials) to measure the impact of their unconditional cash programs and answer public policy questions, generating evidence on key design and implementation questions across varied contexts. You can find over 300 studies on the positive impacts of cash transfers in GiveDirectly’s Cash Research Explorer.

GiveDirectly

Helping those at the front lines protecting Ukraine, the families of fallen heroes, and people who had to leave their homes.

United Help Ukraine, Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization receiving and distributing donations, food and medical supplies to Ukrainian IDPs (internally displaced people), people of Ukraine affected by Russia’s invasion into Eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, families of wounded or killed for freedom and independence of Ukraine. Our activities focus on fund-raising events, raising awareness of the crisis in Ukraine by engaging individuals, organizations, private and government institutions, and media in the United States of America.   Our Priorities: 1.	Save lives of Ukrainian soldiers 2.	Provide help to the wounded Ukrainian warriors 3.	Provide help to the families of wounded and killed in the war 4.	Provide help to internally displaced people from Crimea and Eastern Ukraine 5.	Promote Ukraine’s culture and raise awareness of the current situation in Ukraine

United Help Ukraine

Protecting the Amazon rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples

Since 1996, Amazon Watch has defended the Amazon rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples. Long-term partnerships with Indigenous, forest, and traditional peoples — the best stewards of the rainforest — are the foundation for Amazon Watch’s campaigns for climate justice, corporate accountability, and the permanent protection of the rainforest.

The Amazon is home to more than 500 distinct Indigenous peoples. As our planet’s largest tropical rainforest, it stabilizes our global climate and an immense amount of Earth’s biodiversity and flowing freshwater can be found there.

This vital ecosystem and the Indigenous peoples who have stewarded it for centuries face grave threats from deforestation, resource extraction, land grabs, and destructive development projects. The Amazon is facing a tipping point and won't be able to sustain itself as a rainforest if we remain on our current path of destruction.

To move to a turning point, Amazon Watch is advancing the Indigenous-led proposal to permanently protect 80% of the Amazon by securing Indigenous rights to their ancestral territories, challenging the major drivers of rainforest destruction, and mobilizing solidarity funds directly to Indigenous Earth Defenders throughout the Amazon Basin. Their work combines on-the-ground legal, advocacy, and communications expertise and long-term trusted partnerships with Indigenous peoples and organizations.

🌳Amazon Watch’s Amazon Defenders Fund (ADF) provides direct solidarity funding to Amazonian peoples and organizations free of bureaucratic barriers. The ADF supports Indigenous-led initiatives including community organizing, women’s leadership, communal economies, protection of Earth Defenders at risk for resisting destructive development, and crisis response including to wildfires and oil spills. The ADF is built upon a multi-decade track record as a trusted partner among Indigenous nations. You can learn more at amazonwatch.org/get-involved/amazon-defenders-fund.

Amazon Watch

As conflict escalates in Ukraine, UNICEF is on the ground reaching children with water, health and education services.

UNICEF has saved more children's lives than any of the international children’s charities. Other organizations help children, but UNICEF does more by fighting for children’s rights and delivering the essentials every child needs for an equitable chance in life.

UNICEF USA

IRC responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises & helps people to survive, recover & gain control of their future.

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and in 26 U.S. cities, our dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people.

International Rescue Committee

Alleviating human suffering and supporting individuals and their communities in their efforts to become more self-sufficient.

Mercy-USA is dedicated to alleviating human suffering and supporting individuals and their communities in their efforts to become more self-sufficient. For more info or to donate visit mercyusa.org or call us at 1-800-556-3729.

Mercy-USA for Aid and Development

Furthers America's longstanding commitment to feeding families in need around the world.

We proudly support the mission of the World Food Programme, the leading agency fighting hunger worldwide. By mobilizing individuals, lawmakers and businesses in the United States to advance the global movement to end hunger, we bolster an enduring U.S. legacy of feeding families in need around the world.

World Food Program USA

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