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Alice
landscapeCountry:
liberia
workOccupation:
Subsistence farming
faceAge:
34
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Liberia Large Transfer
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4th 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?
My first transfer was used to buy my 8inch matress with part of my money and Bought two bundles of Zinc with Zinc nails with the balance money. The second and third transfer was used for additional four bundles of Zinc and i was able to paid part of the contractors payment. I have not developed a new goal with my recent transfer because, my new house project is still ongoing and i needed to buy the balance materials like cement bags and sand to finish my house sooner. Thanks to Givedirectly for reducing hardship in my household.I will for ever remember what you have done for my family.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I appreciate Givedirectly for this opportunity because my life is now better and my dreams are all accomplished especially owning a decent sleeping place. Givedirectly was very fair in all of their process. I am one of the happiest recipients in my community.will always thanks Givedirectly.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Through the transfer from Givedirectly, i was able to saved, buy cement bags and sand for my new house.My source of livelihood had been making cassava farm and rice farms to sustain the family especially the children school fees.paying children school fees and food had just been our focus until Givedirectly came in my community.
 
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($278 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?
My plan was to change my thatched roof to iron sheets roof, because the thatched was leaking every rainy season we will have water flouting in the house. but I never had money to accomplish my plan, farming was my sourced of livelihood. but when I received my transfer I was able to change my roof to iron sheets roof. My New goal is to buy additional building materials to improved my house.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedirectly did very well in my life and that of our village. givedirectly was able to enrollment our entire village, givedirectly has changed our entire village with so many new houses, givedirectly has changed my life for the better, in my opinion there's nothing that givedirectly hasn't done well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
When I received my transfer I was able to buy 2bundle of color zinc with part of my transfer, I also paid the workmanship to start the process. The balance money I was able to buy enough foodstuff for my family, many thanks to Givedirectly for their support
 
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($286 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 farmer. The little money I can generate from selling the yield form my farm has not been sufficient to sustain my family. Recieving money from GiveDirectly is a complete blessing. I live in house that leaks when ever rain falls, because it is covered with grass thatch. I used my first transfer to buy zinc that will enable me build my own house. My new goal has been to pay my daughter school fees. GiveDirectly transfer has made my daughter to stay in school. I know when she is educated, my family will have better living standard.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly is an organization that fulfils promise. I was promised that I will recieve cash transfers. Everything is done exactly the way I was told. There is no corruption. There is no third party involve. I received my transfer with ease. In my opinion, GiveDirectly is doing everything well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my transfer on two important things. Firstly, I paid my daughter school fees. My daughter is in school in Monrovia. I received call that she has been put of out class because of school fees. I hurried and sent her school fees. I also used portion of my money to pay the engineer who will construct my house. GiveDirectly transfer is a complete blessings for my family.
 
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($284 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
It was one afternoon when I was underbrushing my plantain farm,an alert came to my phone. As for me, I am not educated so I took the phone to my husband who was under the kitchen for him to check if the money has been transferred. After going through the message he began to smile. Right there, I knew that it was the transfer that has been sent. Without waiting for him to tell me that the money has been transferred, I was happily singing and dancing before he told me that the money has been sent by GiveDirectly.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
In my life, since I was a child, I have not lived in a house covered with zinc. I can therefore say, living in a zinc house is the biggest difference in my daily life since I started recieving payments from GiveDirectly. I thank GiveDirectly for this opportunity. I am going to make maximum use of it.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have decided to use my most recent transfer to buy zinc, nails,and planks. The house we are currently living in is in deplorable condition. My husband and I have been thinking of building a new house before GiveDirectly had come to register us. Now that I have been sent this amount of money, I will buy zinc, nails, and planks for the roof. I thank God that I will now be living in a house that is covered with zinc instead of tatch.
 
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access_time over 2 years ago
 
What does receiving this money mean to you?
My plan is to complete my house. Since my husband (Junior Gortor) left me, I have been stopping in other people houses which I don't feel good about. I have already started to build my own place, this cash will really help me alot.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The happiest part of my life was this gone sunday. Like I said, I'm a farmer. My small peppers I picked from my farm, was bought by my pastor inorder to pay my offering and have small change for food.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My big hard time I am facing right now is money. I'm a single mother right, I don't have a place of my own and I also have my kids staying with my sister which I have to make farm all by myself inorder to sent money for their upkeep. I think when money is there, it wasn't going to be too much hard time for me.