Mental health conditions are among the leading causes of lost wellbeing worldwide, yet access to care remains out of reach for most people in low- and middle-income countries. Friendship Bench Zimbabwe has spent 20 years working on this problem in one of the most extreme cases: a country with only a handful of psychiatrists serving […]
In December 2025, we launched the Happier Lives Fund (HLF), the easiest way for donors to support the best charities we’ve found so far and the with one donation. How much money was raised? How much impact will it have? After finalising the disbursement of the first batch of donations to the charities, we […]
We are writing a sad update concerning an HLI-recommended charity, Network for Empowerment & Progressive Initiative (NEPI), which ran a project called STYL that targeted young men with criminal backgrounds with CBT therapy and cash transfers to reduce crime. The started recommending NEPI as a ‘Promising Charity’ in November 2024. As of […]
RuPaul (a personal icon of mine) is famous for saying, “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” It’s catchy, it’s empowering, and it feels like a perfect summary of the modern wisdom towards improving your happiness. But today, I want to flip it. What if the path to […]
Won’t somebody please think of the children? At the , the highest impact interventions we’ve found so far share one thing in common. They focus on early life childhood interventions. The charities that deliver them are, indeed, thinking of the children. See ‘what is a WELLBY?’ to understand how we measure the impact of […]
At the , we think that providing free psychotherapy for people with common mental health challenges living in low-income countries is a good idea. In fact, we think it’s one of the most cost-effective ways to increase wellbeing globally. The only organisations currently occupying our “top charity” spots (StrongMinds and Friendship Bench Zimbabwe) provide psychotherapy […]
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