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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
264000 MWK ($334 USD)
access_time 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
My life is different. I now have food as I did not harvest a lot of food considering that I did not have fertilizer. I will soon have a house also
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Everything went well and there is noting that Givedirectly should change
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
When I received the money, I bought materials to build myself a house. I bought poles for my roof, I bought bricks and also paid for the labour
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
271500 MWK ($352 USD)
access_time over 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
When I showed her the message about the money, she was so excited and she danced. She gave me authority to cash out the money and to buy her mattress.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The recipient is deaf. Being deaf has never been so easy as she is mostly rejected in the society. Nobody would not wish to employ her and life has always been so challenging financially and socially. with the transfer, she has managed to buy kitchen materials such as plates, pots, spoons etc things that seems so easy to have but she could not manage to buy. She has now good church clothes were as before, she had two dresses which she wore through out the week, month or year.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought 20 iron sheets,4 bags of maize, biscycle, matress and kitchen items. I have bought clothes.
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access_time over 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Receiving this money will help our household to buy enough food since we are already starving and and spending some days without any food just wild fruits and mangoes. The money will also help us buy the cheap fertilizers so that we apply it in our garden to harvest enough maize next year
What is the happiest part of your day?
I am happiest whenever I have done piece work and have been paid money which allows me to buy food and other things for my family
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Both I and my husband are mute and this has badly affected our interaction with people as some people tend to mock us and think we cannot achieve great things in life which explains why we never attended any school because people in the village think we are useless.
