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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($278 USD)
access_time 2 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I am Jebeh Dorlley from Gbaibon town, Bomi County Liberia. Since I started receiving cash transfer from Givedirectly, I decided to build my house. I am presently buying materials to start my project soon.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion, Givedirectly is a organization that is committed to what they stand for and very trustworthy in transferring the money. I am also proud of the interaction between their staffs and people in this village including me. They are very patient and respectful. They don't accept gifts from people. I have not heard of anything that Givedirectly didn't do well in this village. May the almighty God bless this organization.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought three bundles of zinc, and ten bags of cement to start construction of my house.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I plan to improve my house with a new roof, I plan to pay my children school fees and I also plan to pay hospital bills for my treatment.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Paying my children school fees, improving my house with a new roof and even paying my bills for my treatment all are good things that give directly have done for me.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought zinc to improve my house with a new roof, I have paid my children school fees and I also paid my bill at the hospital for my treatment.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($284 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I plan to improve my house with a new roof, plan to pay my children school fees and I also plan to buy some school materials for my children.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly did well for me.It was through this transfer that my life has improved. In the past months, I used to do hard work in the bush just for my family and I to survive. But right now, we are eating on time and the hard work has reduced.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought zinc to start improving my house with a new roof, paid my children school fees and bought some school materials for my children.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($282 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I feel happy because, I was suffering to send my children to school. I couldn't afford any money for my children to go to school.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
At the time that I was not having money to do good things for myself, I was thinking too much where will I get money from to send my children to school. But now, through give directly people help, my suffering has reduced. I can pay my children school fees regularly.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I paid my children school fees, make garden and l also bought some materials for the house.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
When I'm opportune to received the cash transfer I will send my two smaller children to school and make a red oil business with the remaining one. Since the birth of my two smaller children I have not been able to sponsor them in school, and now they have turn 6years. It has always been my dream to educate my children but unfortunately my bigger children couldn't make their way through because of the financial constrained and now all of them are in their marry home. With the oil business I will be able to continuously support my two children in school and provides our daily needs.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What has brought me joy in the last six months is the time my elder daughter give birth to her second child. when she was pregnant I was always worried about her save deliverance because there is no clinic in the community and we have to travelled 2hours to another community before we assess clinic, and that cause more women to died during child birth, but God could have it, we travel to the clinic and she give birth safely.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The major challenges I'm face with now is financial constrain. Our only source of income is the produce we get from the farm and right now the only thing we are producing is cassava, but we can not take the cassava to the market because we have to make it with fufu before taking it to the market, and the fufu production has to take close to a week. When we take the fufu to the market there are no buyers.
