A pioneering program in Malawi lets recipients decide how best to use the lump sum payments
Magret Frank, 40, walks out of her home, built with funds from GiveDirectly, in Chamba village, southern Malawi. CHAMBA, Malawi — The cyclone tore through Magret Frank’s village two years ago, ripping apart the thatched mud huts. She dragged her four children from their beds just before the roof beams collapsed, and their chickens and clothes were swept away into the howling night.
Now cyclones can’t wreck Frank’s food stores, kill her chickens or ruin her clothes and utensils. Village chief Edna Nikisi said the 2022 cyclone flattened 26 houses. This season, cyclones were strong but they blew down only four homes, all the old-style mud huts.ago, microfinance was the darling of the aid world.
The debate on how to lift people out of poverty is most urgent in Africa. Overall, global wealth has quadrupled in the past 30 years, but a third of the people in Africa still live in extreme poverty — about. That is due partly to rising populations and partly to factors such as war, poor governance and climate change.
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