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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 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?
My goal is to have a house on my own before the end of this year,2022 .
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedirect did extremely well and I must appreciate them for the assistance given me during the four months period.
Today if I could achieve anything good in my life come through them.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
The money was used to purchase a secondly motorcycle for business
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($278 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 had plans to start a small business
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly is doing well
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I'm planning on starting a small business
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($299 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?
Yes, I had plans to build my own house.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly is doing well but sometimes most of our friends are not selected
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my most recent transfer on my school fees and my motorcycle
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($273 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I felt happy and proud of myself because that was .my first time to get money that you don't work for and they just sent it to you with no condition attached..
I am happy and thankful to God for his grace upon our lives.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Before then we were being supported by my parents, but now my oldest sister is sick and she is not in the position to help us now.
We are grratful to the GD family for thinking about we the children that are wanting to attend school, but no support.
We have settled our school requirements and paid half of the fees
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
The money was used to sponsored my wife and myself to school and we started small new business to maintain ourselves while in school.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
If I am successful to receive this transfer I intend to build my own house.The house that my household and l are living in right now is not our own house, it is my mother in law house.More besides the room that she gives my household and I is not large to contain all of our house materials and the farm that we are surviving from doesn't yeild much to earn enough money to feed my family and to build house
What is the happiest part of your day?
What makes me feel happy in the last six months is that my spouse got a new motor cycle for work-and-pay to supplement our small produce from our cassava farm. This became a relief for us even though he will be paying for it, but when he had finished paying for the motor cycle it will belong to us.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
One of the major challenges is getting money to build our own house.Even though I'm engaged in making farm, but the yeild is not enough to take care of my household basic needs and build house.
