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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
297300 MWK ($364 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 am a happy man because I have bought building and roofing materials as before we were failing to build a house because we didn't have money to buy the materials
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I am very poor and what givedirectly has done it is s good job giving us money and I will lie to say anything bad I didn't see anything that it didn do well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought matress and blankets also ironsheets because I have started moulding bricks to build a new house
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
307200 MWK ($379 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
The moment isaw the text message that i have received money from Givedirectly I was very happy and grateful at the same time because this is something that has never happened before to me in my whole family.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Now adays we are able to eat the way we desire because we have we have enough food unlike in the past when we could only manage to eat twice or even once a day, so our lives have improved so much with the coming of this program. To add on this we also built a new house and we are sleeping comfortably since we used some of the money that we received to buy a Mattress
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Bags of Maize, iron sheets, cement and mattress
Enrolled
access_time almost 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I want to build a house. The money will meant having a house for my big family. I am sleeping in a stick house but I have alot of kids, I have wen farming groundnuts for six years to build a house but each time I kept some money it all ends by doing other equal important things. This time around I will build a house.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In the morning, because it's a new day with new challenges and opportunities.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
First thing I want to put a blame to my parents, they were encouraging us to have more kids and not to take education seriously, if my parents were knowledgeable enough, o wouldn't have been so poor as I am today
