Sampled buildings in Nairobi Central Business District. By Fredrick Obura and Reuters
NAIROBI, KENYA: The country jumped from twelfth place to third position after Indonesia and Myanmar in the World Giving Index. “A star performer was the East African nation of Kenya, which jumped from twelfth to third place in a single year,” said Charities Aid Foundation.
ALSO READ: Why the Supreme Court ruling was so significant for Kenya The index is primarily based on data from a global poll of 146,000 respondents by market research firm Gallup.
It discovered that Africa among other poor continents continued to grow more generous bucking the trend of otherwise declining signs of charity worldwide. Africa was in a 2016 survey the only continent to report a continent-wide increase of its index generosity score when compared to its five-year average.
The score is a combined measure of respondents in 139 countries who were asked whether they had given money to a good cause, volunteered their time and helped a stranger.
“Despite the many challenges our continent is facing, it is encouraging to see that generosity continues to grow,” said Gill Bates, Southern Africa’s CEO for the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) that commissioned the poll. But globally, donating money and helping a stranger fell by nearly 2 percent, while volunteering dropped about 1 percent, the index showed.
From the United States to Switzerland and Singapore to Denmark, the index showed that the planet’s 10 richest countries by GDP per capita, for which data was available, saw declines in their generosity index score.
Myanmar, for the fourth consecutive year, held the top position of the World Giving Index as the most generous country.
ALSO READ: This back and forth over IEBC is unhealthy for the country Nine in ten of those surveyed in the Southeast Asian nation said they had donated money during the previous month.
Indonesia ranked second on the combined measure of generosity, overtaking the United States which held that position in last year’s index. Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest country, which has been grappling with the effects of civil war ranked bottom of the World Giving Index.
Generosity declines
worldwide but Africa saves the day: global survey
By Fredrick Obura and Reuters | Published Thu, September 7th 2017 at
09:31, Updated September 7th 2017 at 15:24 GMT +3
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Sampled buildings in Nairobi Central Business District.
NAIROBI, KENYA: The country jumped from twelfth place to third position
after Indonesia and Myanmar in the World Giving Index.
“A star performer was the East African nation of Kenya, which jumped
from twelfth to third place in a single year,” said Charities Aid
Foundation.
ALSO READ: Why the Supreme Court ruling was so significant for Kenya
The index is primarily based on data from a global poll of 146,000
respondents by market research firm Gallup.
It discovered that Africa among other poor continents continued to grow
more generous bucking the trend of otherwise declining signs of charity
worldwide.
Africa was in a 2016 survey the only continent to report a
continent-wide increase of its index generosity score when compared to
its five-year average.
The score is a combined measure of respondents in 139 countries who were
asked whether they had given money to a good cause, volunteered their
time and helped a stranger.
“Despite the many challenges our continent is facing, it is encouraging
to see that generosity continues to grow,” said Gill Bates, Southern
Africa’s CEO for the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) that commissioned
the poll.
But globally, donating money and helping a stranger fell by nearly 2
percent, while volunteering dropped about 1 percent, the index showed.
From the United States to Switzerland and Singapore to Denmark, the
index showed that the planet’s 10 richest countries by GDP per capita,
for which data was available, saw declines in their generosity index
score.
Myanmar, for the fourth consecutive year, held the top position of the
World Giving Index as the most generous country.
ALSO READ: This back and forth over IEBC is unhealthy for the country
Nine in ten of those surveyed in the Southeast Asian nation said they
had donated money during the previous month.
Indonesia ranked second on the combined measure of generosity,
overtaking the United States which held that position in last year’s
index.
Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest country, which has been grappling with
the effects of civil war ranked bottom of the World Giving Index.
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