> That is, what would it cost to buy someone in the US that same result? That's really hard to compare, because very few people in the first world don't have a

> That is, what would it cost to buy someone in the US that same result? That's really hard to compare, because very few people in the first world don't have a working roof (https://www.givedirectly.org/operating-model https://www.givedirectly.org/operating-model: We target households using criteria that vary by region—including aggregating a range of factors or looking at housing materials & https://www.givedirectly.org/blog-post.html?id=2845341784910255488 https://www.givedirectly.org/blog-post.html?id=2845341784910...). Lets use the figures from the operating model page: "The average recipient in Kenya lives on just 65 cents (nominal) per day" - so a cash injection of $1,000 is 1,538 days @ $0.065 - or about 4 years. If it is a family of four, $1,000 is a year's worth of expenses for the whole family. That's probably a fair measure of what this represents - a year's salary for a family of four. As a cash injection, it also allows for large purchases, e.g. to spend a few hundred on a roof. So each payment is the equivalent in the US of enough cash to buy, say, a car?