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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?
I plan to buy my land.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly gave me money to improve my life. I want to tell give directly people thank you so much.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought my land with the transfer that give directly gave me.
3rd 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?
My name is Jenneh Gbellay from Yormu Orphan town Dowein District Bomi County.
I planned to buy land and built my house from the Give Directly cash support.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I feel good the way Give Directly work with me
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought land and getting ready to built my house in monrovia
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?
To built house
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GD I doing good
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Pay against plot of land
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($267 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
The moment I received GD transfer I was very excited. Give Directly transfer came right in time when I was having a financial crisis.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The transfer change me alot, I was able to paid my boyfriend graduation fees and my semester school fees. I know with the new certificate, my boyfriend will get a better job to support me and my family.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my most recent transfer on my boyfriend graduation fees. I saved some of my money to enrolled in school this semester.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I plan to use my transfer to pay me and my husband school fees for us to go back to school because we dropped out of school for a long time due to lack of finances.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The orphanage that I am taking care of was provided food items by WFP and this helped to reduce the burden of buying food, and my big brother just earned a BSC from African Methodist Episcopal University in Monrovia and he is now helping us.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Currently, I'm not working and for me to get money is difficult. I have to make garden and sell the produce before I get money to take care of me and my family.
