2024-12-03
42 分钟It's Giving Tuesday - a time when many people donate to charity (using websites like this: givingmultiplier.org/happiness). Giving money to help people makes them feel good, but it can also make you feel great too. Last year, Happiness Lab listeners gave over $100,000 to raise a whole village in Rwanda out of extreme poverty. Dr Laurie hears the stories of how we all helped transform lives in Kibobo. With the aid of happiness expert, Nick Epley, we explain why helping Kibobo felt so uplifting and how we can make the act of giving a daily happiness habit. If you want to donate money to help people in places like Kibobo - or give to any other charity you care to support - go to givingmultiplier.org/happiness. This episode of The Happiness Lab on the joy of giving is brought to you by the 2024 Subaru Share the Love Event. From now until January 2nd, when you get a new Subaru, Subaru and its retailers will donate a minimum of $300 to charity. To learn more, go to Subaru.com/share. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, Happiness Lab listeners, welcome to an episode brought to you by the 2024 Subaru share the Love event.
And I'm pretty excited because today is one of my favorite holidays.
Giving Tuesday.
Giving Tuesday is the one day of the year that focuses on giving back, whether that's gifting money to your favorite charity, checking in on a friend, or doing a rand act of kindness for a stranger.
Study after study shows that engaging in actions like these can have a big impact on our happiness.
And that's the reason we tend to make a big deal out of Giving Tuesday here at the Happiness Lab.
If you're a fan of the show, you'll remember that each Giving Tuesday, we offer listeners an opportunity to help folks in need.
In years past, we've partnered with groups like givingmultiplier.org, a site that allows you to donate not only to your favorite cause, but but also to a set of super effective charities recommended by experts, where every one of your dollars will do the most good.
Last year, we focused our efforts on just one of these super effective charities.
GiveDirectly.
GiveDirectly strives to end global poverty through a rather creative strategy.
They find a community in need and give every single member of that community some much needed cash, no strings attached.
What we do is we send about $1,000 to each of the households in those villages.
This is Gloria Anguiver, GiveDirectly's country director in Rwanda, explaining where the donations usually.
Go, 10% of the money goes to basic needs.
So that would be food and the most essential items in the house.
Another 20 to 25% goes to house renovation.
And that's usually a basic need.
If you're being rained on, you don't think straight and you don't continue sending the children to school and so on and so forth.