I'm Dr. Barre Santos. My podcast The Happiness Lab recently explored the well-being benefits of helping others.

I also gave listeners the chance to make themselves happier by sending money directly to the people of Cabobo in Rwanda.

This is Talaisifor.

His children often went hungry when money was scarce.

But with our help, he's recently been able to buy land for farming, a cow, and some goats.

This year, he'll finally be looking forward to a big harvest.

Plus, Telesophore's daughter can now go to school, and his son was able to buy a motor bike,

so he can now earn money as a motor taxi driver.

But the cash we sent to Cabobo has also helped to Lesifour regain his self-respect and his dignity.

Before I had very old and torn clothes, he says, and I was not confident to meet other people.

Well I just received a photo of Tilesa For sporting not only some new clothes

but the biggest proudest smile you've ever seen. I am no longer embarrassed he says.

The funds we raised together have helped hundreds of other people in Cabobo too, so thank you so

much. And if you want to give yourself it's not too late, head right now to give directly.org

slash happiness. That's give directly.org slash happiness. Pushkin.

This year Finland has yet again been crowned the planet's happiest nation by the World Happiness Report.

Country rankings like these are usually the only thing people hear about when it comes to this annual report. But here on the

happiness lab we like to go a bit deeper into the well-being science. And so in the

next episodes we'll be diving into what the report says about other

pressing well-being issues. Last time, we spoke to John Hellowel,

who's been working on the World Happiness Report since its inception.

He explained that this year's report focused not just on overall differences

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