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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($280 USD)
access_time almost 2 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
No. I still Metain my same goal of building a house of my own and to sent my children school.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly is doing well when come to transparency. GiveDirectly is very transparent in all her activities.
As far as I'm concerned, I've not seen anything that GiveDirectly is not doing well
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I saved the most recent transfer with the saving club that I'm a member of.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($276 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 never had the thought of building a house but when GiveDirectly came to my community, I decided to so because I live in a house that doesn't belong to me.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly does everything well and I will become a house owner very soon because of what GiveDirectly did for me.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Even though I haven't use the money, I want to buy zinc and pay workers to build my house.
2nd 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?
Yes, I have a new plan of building a new house for my family and I. The house I'm currently residing in is not mine. I previously paid my children school fees and I bought food with the first transfer.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
As for me, GiveDirectly has done so many good things for my family and I. Imagine, owning a house for myself is like a dream. I have never seen NGO transparent in their process like GiveDirectly.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought three bundles of zinc and four bags of cement for my proposed new house projects. I also bought food with some of the money and I saved the balance money for workmanship.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Upon receiving this cash transfer, I will build a house.
Since my wife and myself came got together, in the past, we have been living in family and other people house. And the house we are living in presently is not ours, sometime, the owner of the house, will just get vex and say he don't want people to be in his house, because we don't have place to be, we will call few elders to beg him to pardon, so, I feel that the essence of living in other house, it has too many disadvantages. From this, my plan if I received this money, I will used portion of it to build a house, so those that have been ill-treating me for house, so that, they can know that this is something that we'll leave it here and go and the balance will be used for my wife to do a business in order to sustain the family.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Waking up in the morning and seeing my wife and children in a healthy mood makes me happy. When we burn the coal and take it to the market, after two to three weeks, when we get the money, it also makes me happy, because, I will used the money to take care of the needs of the family.
My biggest happiness has come from Givedirectly by giving me money inorder to used it wisely for the benefits of my family.
This is one of the biggest happiness in our life because, since we came together, we have seen such an opportunity. I believe that God has open the door for our poverty to clear out through Givedirectly. And I will always pray for Givedirectly and those white people's that think about us in the time of poverty.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The hardship we are faced with are majors in the sense that, to even get a daily food for the family, we have to get in the bush, to burn coal, or make farm inorder to cater to the health, educational and shelters of the family.
Even, one of the challenges is the house that I'm presently in, the owner of the house can just get vex and decided to put everybody out if his house, we don't have anywhere to go. So we will call other neighbors to beg him, that also can bring a setback to me as to say, that I'm not making my family proud.
