Givedirect was founded as DashDirect in 2017 by our Chief Executive Oficer, Mahamadu Salam and Kevin Colussi, a passionate American philanthropist. they shared in the same goals, dreams and ambitions of ending global extreme poverty through innovation and Technology. Starting from Ghana, GiveDirect under the name DashDirect lunched its first project in November 2017 in Northern Ghana called the Basic Income project.
This is a project by the Colussi Family foundation with Mahamadu Salam acting in the capacity of Give Direct serving as an independent contractor for the Colussi Family foundation.
This project provided basic healthcare service to hundreds of children, women, the elderly and some youth in rural communities within Gushegu municipality in Nothern region of Ghana.
Under this programme, we have provided and replaced broken-down boreholes for five communities in Gushegu municipality in Northern region.