Giving Back Day 9: Give Work

Photo of Samasource workers sitting at their computers

Samasource is a nonprofit that connects people living in poverty to work via the Internet. This “microwork” – small quantities of labor that can be done anytime and anywhere – enables marginalized people, from refugees in Kenya to women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing economic opportunities.

One of the most effective ways to encourage people to contribute to your cause is to make idiosyncratic fits between their talents, skills, or interests and what you need to accomplish. Samasource excels at offering many different ways to take action, depending on the time and resources of the donor. You can give jobs to the Samasource workforce, give money, spread the word, or now–download their iPhone app!

Samasource and Crowdflower’s new iPhone app, Give Work, lets you support refugees in Dadaab, Kenya—the world’s largest refugee site—in minutes by completing short, on-screen tasks. The refugees are training to complete these same tasks and, by volunteering to tag a video or trace a road, you will generate money to support their training as well as valuable data to help focus future training programs.

How do you get Give Work onto your iPhone so you can start helping now? You can download it from the Apple iTunes app store. You can also open App Store on your iPhone and search for “Give Work.”