Namita Desai – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org Send money directly to people in need. Fri, 03 Jan 2020 20:45:06 +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 Namita Desai – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org 32 32 Solving the last mile payment challenge in Liberia https://www.givedirectly.org/solving-the-last-mile-payment-challenge-in-liberia/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 22:04:19 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/blog_post.php?id=6806864565744290695 Think of the longest ATM line you’ve seen in the US…and multiply it by 80. On the World Bank index of ATMs per 100,000 people, Liberia comes in at fewer than 2 (by comparison, the US has 174). Not surprisingly, it’s the kind of place where delivering cash as an aid intervention is often deemed “impossible” by the sector. Our team launched in Monrovia 8 months ago – and $654K dollars distributed…

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