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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

For the next 700 words, I invite you to remember the disaster events that occurred in 2019, just months before the pandemic outbreak. . In 2019, millions of people around the world were affected by disasters and humanitarian crises. Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

Some think a climate disaster wouldn’t hit their farms for a particular season; hence, they don’t ask for insurance initially. Social enterprises like One Acre Fund, startups like Apollo Agriculture, and agribusiness giants like Flour Mills and Export Trading Group are also among Pula’s clients. million farmers.

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Swoop Aero’s drones hit a million items delivered as the company raises for expansion

TechCrunch

Australian drone logistics company Swoop Aero is celebrating new milestones and funding as it plans its expansion to more markets. “If you’re the minister of a country, whether it’s Austrialia or Malawi, you say ‘we want to be able to do 300 high-priority deliveries a month.’

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Over the past week though, there have been little glimpses of happiness amid the disasters, scandals and economic bad news - stories about the CNN Heroes: Ordinary People Extraordinary Impact. Today, the Los Angeles nanny funds a school in her native Malawi -- where half a million children have been orphaned by the disease."

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