Maggie Shun & Vera Lummis – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org Send money directly to people in need. Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:09:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-GiveDirectly-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png Maggie Shun & Vera Lummis – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org 32 32 Sending cash to flood survivors – 4 things we got right and wrong https://www.givedirectly.org/flood-pilots/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:11:36 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/?p=10432 For Hassana in Kogi, Nigeria, October’s floods were not like years past. “All our farmlands washed away as many had not yet harvested what they planted. The flooding continued until our homes and other things were destroyed. At this point we were running helter-skelter,” she said. These floods, the worst in a decade, result from predictable seasonal rains. If we can anticipate floods…

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