Many charities work like this: they get donations in cash and then they use that money to buy goods like food and clothes to be given away to those in need. But what if the money was just given to those people instead? What happens then? That's the work that NGO GiveDirectly does. We speak to Piali, GiveDirectly's Chief Operating Officer on how their work has changed lives so far.

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