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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($244 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?
RE:Yes i have, I have not cashout any of my transfers givedirectly have been sending me because i have been struggling with my decission to spend my transfers.
I have a project in Monrovia that i have been working on long before the coming of givedirectly.
Therefore i have come up with the decision to use my transfers on the completion of the project.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
RE: Givedirectly have been doing well in the sense that they have help people leave from thatch houses to zinc.
What i will love for givedirectly to revisit is the part where some communities are being left out of the program while others benefit, it appears bad to me,
I feel it gives miss feelings to some people as well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
RE: I will be spending the most of my transfer on purchasing cement and sand for the completion of my house in Monrovia.
I have been on this project long before the coming of givedirectly in my community, but the help of givedirectly cash transfer am about to complete it soon.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($246 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?
My only goal is to improve my business and that was what I did by investing it into my business.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my mind GiveDirectly is doing well because they are help to empower other people life. I have not observed anything that GiveDirectly is not doing well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought more goods and added it to my business.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($246 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?
My plan stay remain the same which is to improve my business that's while I'm awaiting the rest of my money to come before I can cash it out.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my mind GiveDirectly is doing well because they are helping to improve the life of poor people. In my mind GiveDirectly has done nothing bad yet.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I am planning to improve my business with my recent transfer.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I want to improve my business and help my children who are in school.
Because my business will help me and my family have a better home also this business is only source of income I have so when it bigger my family life will improve.
What is the happiest part of your day?
My family was happy when we all enter the new year.
We was happy because we went through the year in good health and my children was able to enter new school year .
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My challenge is my children schools fees.
All of my bigger children are 9 in school and now a day education is very expensive and this small business I'm doing is not really helping me as the result the business is reducing because I paid my children schools fees out of the business.
