MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Visa, Oxfam to Expand B-READY to Provide Pre-disaster Cash Assistance in Colombia, Kenya, Puerto Rico

Visa, a US-based payments company, and Oxfam America, an anti-poverty NGO, announced during the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE that they plan to scale Oxfam’s Building Resilient, Adaptive and Disaster-ready Communities (B-READY) project to deliver relief payments in advance of storms and flooding in Colombia, Kenya and the US territory of Puerto Rico. B-READY was launched in