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Who: GiveDirectly

Their aims: Use a ‘recipient first’ model to empower the poor by allowing them to make decisions about how they spend their aid money and accelerate their journey towards self-sufficiency.

What they do: Transfer money directly to extremely poor people – by locating communities in need in Africa and sending representatives door-to-door to enroll eligible recipients. Recipients are electronically sent around USD 1,000 – roughly a typical household budget for one year – and families report online how they have spent the money.

Who: The Power of Nutrition  

Their aims: Tackle the scourge of child malnutrition by working with governments to roll out high impact nutrition programs to children, teenagers and mothers at risk

What they do: Target women – especially during pregnancy and motherhood – infants and young children to improve the quality of nutrition in the crucial first 1,000 days of a child’s life and through early childhood.

Who: World Child Cancer  

Their aims: Give equal access to the best possible treatment and care for every child with cancer

What they do: Increase one-year survival rates, improve treatment access and provide emotional and financial support to children with cancer and their families in the global south World Child Cancer develops centers of treatment excellent by twinning staff and hospitals in resource rich countries with those with limited resources to train healthcare workers and improve treatment standards.

Who: Quality Education India Development Impact Bond

Their aims: Change the lives of 200,000 primary school children in India by improving the quality of education.

What they do: 3 nonprofit partners work with teachers and families in India to increase the quality of teaching and school leadership, and encourage regular school attendance. DIBs are one way to encourage more private sector investment in development programs that are 100% focused on measurable impact. By tying outcome payments to performance, the implementing partner has increased motivation to deliver results.

Who: Impact Water  

Their aims: To increase access to safe water, with an initial focus on schools and health facilities.

What they do: Provide water purification systems and installation in schools in Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria, to make sure that children have access to safe, affordable drinking water to avoid contracting waterborne illnesses and disease during their education.

Who: Goodweave  

Their aims: To end child labor, forced labour and bonded labour in global supply chains.

What they do: Goodweave works with global companies in home furnishings, apparel and jewelry to clean their supply chains right down to the last tier of the supply chain. As well as assessing factory standards Goodweave works right down to the community level, to identify and address child labour and exploitative labour practices.

Who: Lumos

Their aims: To make sure that all children grow up in loving, nurturing, protective families.

What they do: Support governments and charities to move away from the harmful use of orphanages. Lumos helps to reunite families, gives families support to prevent separation and builds alternative care for children who need it such as foster care and adoption.

Who: Freedom Fund  

Their aims: To end modern slavery in all parts of the world.

What they do: Tackle the systems that allow all forms of slavery to exist; this can include people trapped working in places like sweatshops or brothels, human trafficking, the use of debt bondage, forced marriage and even the sale of children.

Who: San Diego Trafficking Prevention Collective (Optimus Partner)

Their aims: To bring human trafficking awareness and prevention education to youth and families based in San Diego.

What they do: Provide training to teachers and students to equip them with the knowledge and self-protection to beat human trafficking in their schools and neighborhoods.