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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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I am using my third transfer to buy zinc and build a new house for my family and I. Life has been very hard especially in the raining season,it's very difficult for me in that my roof can always leak.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedirectly is really good and helping us
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent all on constructing a new house
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What does receiving this money mean to you?
My worry has been the leakages of my house during rainy season every year which I don't have the means of changing the house including the very roof . I have always thought of changing my house whenever I having to get cash that can enable me to undertake such process. I built this tatch house in 2018 . And building with taches on roof is a difficult issues because you will always dislike the rainy season. My dream of changing the entire house will come to fruitful if I am opportune to receive the unconditional cash transfer from Givedirectly because having a house with a corrugated sheets has been my long time plan .
What is the happiest part of your day?
Whenever I huntdown an animal to be sold for cash and portion be kept for my family use, I am happy. It because I don't feel good at all if my family go with hunger the entire day ... That is the reason I spent most of my day in the bush for the hunt of animals. I am not a fisherman because it is not everyone loves to be a fisherman. My happiness always comes whenever I am lucky to hunt and kill animals.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The struggle of hunting for animals for sale , making farm every year for the family to survive with my bare hands are among the many challenges I face with every year of my life . I am so challenge nowadays to undertake these processes of gathering those things that enable my family to survive because of my old age . And as the result, life has become unbearable for my family and I thereby making my wife to get on boat to Buchanan to sell coconut for our survival .
