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Emergency Cash

Cash for emergency relief

When crisis strikes, send cash to families within days so they can meet their own needs with dignity and speed.

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A flood survivor in Mozambique 🇲🇿

Why Emergency Cash

Send emergency cash to families within days, not weeks

Crises are growing more frequent and severe, but humanitarian aid is failing to keep pace. Families may wait weeks for help, and in the world's poorest places, aid may never come at all.

Cash is one of the fastest, most efficient ways to help families suffering from crises, but only ~20% of humanitarian aid is given as cash today. If the humanitarian system shifted to cash at scale, it could reach more people in crisis.

91̽�� is closing this gap, with a goal of delivering cash within 5 days of any crisis, anywhere in the world.

Why cash works

Cash is a fast, efficient way to help survivors recover with dignity

Cash is fast

Delivered within days, without the delays of shipping, storage, and distribution.

Cash is flexible

Overwhelmingly over in-kind aid because cash lets them decide what they need most.

Cash is efficient

Proven to be at least than in-kind aid.

Why recipients should choose

Families know what they need most

For families like Idelbert's, cash isn't just relief — it's what they need to recover on their own terms. Families use emergency cash to:

Meet urgent needs: Buy food, access healthcare, and find shelter without going into debt or selling assets needed to rebuild.
Get back to baseline: Replace what was lost—homes, livestock, tools—and regain a sense of stability.
Recover stronger: Invest in new productive assets or livelihoods that help them move out of poverty for the long term.

Idelbert with his mother and younger sister in Cebu, the Philippines — Idelbert with his mom and little sister in Cebu, Philippines Received emergency cash after a devastating 6.9 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines

Our moonshot

Deliver cash within 5 days of any crisis, anywhere in the world

Since 2017, we've responded to crises across 15+ countries — from floods in Kenya to conflict in the DRC. Now we're building the systems to deliver emergency cash within 5 days of any crisis in the world. Giving to our Emergency Response Fund helps us reach families fast when it matters most.

How it works

We're building a system to reach crisis survivors faster, smarter, and at global scale

Getting cash to survivors within days requires a repeatable, scalable system that moves faster at every step, powered by mobile phones, digital payments, and new AI tools:

Targeting

We use anonymized mobile phone data, satellite imagery, and AI-powered analysis to rapidly identify people living in poverty and impacted by crises—often within hours.

Enrolling

We enroll and verify eligible individuals quickly and remotely via SMS, WhatsApp, and other digital channels, complemented by call centers and in-person pathways where needed.

Paying

We partner with payment providers across mobile money, traditional rails, and blockchain to enable fast, secure payments, even when local infrastructure is disrupted.

Our Emergency Cash partners

Emergency Response Fund

Why we launched an Emergency Response Fund

Most emergency fundraising happens after a crisis hits—too late for the families who need help immediately. When disasters strike in the world's poorest places, they often don't make headlines, so funds may never come at all. The Emergency Response Fund provides flexible, ready-to-deploy resources that 91̽�� can deliver wherever needs are greatest, whether the world is watching or not.