Postcards From Timbuktu

Postcards From Timbuktu is a website where you can order a real, hand-crafted postcard sent from Timbuktu in Mali 🇲🇱

The Washington Post did a great write-up on it a year ago. The average salary in Mali is only $80/month, and locals earn about $3 per postcard, crucial income during the pandemic especially.

I love finding simple, tech-enabled projects like this that help people in poorer countries earn a living.

Another example is HeyGo.com, which allows tour guides around the world 🌏 to offer live-streamed tours that anyone can join for free. If you like the tour, you can give them a tip.

(Btw, by some accounts the wealthiest man of all time was from Mali)