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4th 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?
Start a business shop to sell varieties if goods charge phones
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Giving us cash to help ourselves
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have not used my money yet but the plan remain the same
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($298 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 don't have a new goal; I am using this third transfer to continue my new house project and to also focus on the business I want to start.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
What I know Givedirectly does well is the money they gave us to help ourselves. They are not people of bad character.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought seven bags of cement, one cartoon of nails, along with one bundle of zinc. I kept the balance to add up to the next transfer for my business.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($297 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?
Yes, I have a new goal. My goal is to become a business man.My source of income has been by harvesting palm and burning coal.With the help of GD, I'm leaving from that style of earning income to a business man.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedirectly has done well by empowering me financially. In a short distance future, I will own a shop for myself. GD has transformed my life. I will forever remain great ful to GD for this gesture.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my recent transfer to purchase bundles of zinc and nails. I want to start constructing my shop in my village.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($273 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I it was evening hours when received the message in the network area in the town. I felt very happy, I always wanted to do business but there was no funds
I have being a hired help to burn coal, to make farms just to make ends meet. This money means a lot to me so I will use it wisely, by starting a business and building a house.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Everyday im happy because i see my life being different in few months to come having my own shop and house.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I intend starting a shop where i will sell provisons and charge phones. Im also building a house and attaching a shop to it.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I am burning coal to earn money and take care of my son and I. Burning coal takes a lot of hard work and it comes with severe back pain and headache. I have built a little shop on the main road in Morris Kubono Town but don't have money to start my business.
So when I receive this money, I will firstly start a business to sustain my son and I. The profit that I will get from there will make me to send my son to school because I want to make his future to be better and not like me.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I have been tgink about how to get my own place and God has really helped me. What has brought joy and happiness to me is that I have seen my handwork in the progress made in the building of my shop and house. I feel that by the middle of next year, I will shall have raise some funds to start my business and be financially stable.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My challenges are many but the main one is to raise money to get something doing and send my son and myself to school. Since I dropped from school, things have been tough for me because I am this young and the only means for me to survive is to burn charcoal. If I can raise a good amount from my coal sales, then I can send myself back to school. But at the moment, things are not fine with me because of finance.
