We check in with people at each stage of the cash transfer process to see how things are going. Take a look at some of their stories as they appear here in real-time.
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was happy ooh says the recipient. I did not eat on the day I received the cash transfer, because I was very,very happy. The money I received made me very happy. I have never received such money before. Thanks to Give Directly.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Before receiving the cash transfer, my family and I have been living with my father in-law all our lives, but thanks to Give Directly for the assistance given us that will make us start our own house project.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I safe my cash to build my family house. My family and I have been living in my father in-law house for twenty one years, and is about to use the cash given me to build our house. Three of mine children were out if school because of no money to pay their tuitions. The cash will also assist to send one of them to school while we're trying to build our own house. Thanks to Give Directly for the assistance.
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What does receiving this money mean to you?
"Since my husband marry me ,we been living in his father and mother house.If God bless me to receive the Give-Directly money we will build our new home.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I'm happy when I wake up in the morning and see that im strong and healthy to go get cassava to fix my gari.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Our major challenge is that we don't have money to sent our children to fish town to go to school.
