Cash-By-Text Pilot Goes Live In Philippines

Mobile phones are everywhere in the Philippines, even the slums of Manila, where people either have their own or share with others. That means the country is well suited to a new pilot project that uses text messages to distribute money earned through WFP 'cash-for-work' projects.

MANILA—After a hard day’s work rebuilding shelters and schools, and clearing flotsam out of the canals of Manila, a group of people hit by last year’s typhoon flooding all receive the same text message on their mobile phones.