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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?
My plan is to build a house for myself and leave by our parents house., where we been living since then.
This have been our dreams some time ago, but the hand was not there to do that at the time and now that we have received money from Givedirect and we are about to build as planned.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I want to be grateful to Givedirect for the level of assistance that I received from them during the past few months.
The assistance make my life and the life of my family to improved to some living standard
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
When I withdraw the money, I will use it for the building materials and labor payment
3rd 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?
I am still working on the plan I had from the usual stage. I decided to build my own house.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedirectly aways transferring money to my mobile account every month according to Schedule. Their staffs are very respectful and also checking in to ensure that I receive money. Thanks to Givedirectly and those that contributed to helping me.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought three bundles of zinc, and one cartoon of zinc nail.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($285 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 plan to build my house, plan to pay my children school fees and plan to buy food for my family.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly gave me this money to improve my life. By paying my children school fees, buying food for the family and even started building a house of my own makes me happy and proud.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought food for my family, paid my children school fees and started building my house.
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?
I am Massa Zinnah from Bowein town, Bomi County Liberia. I was very excited upon receiving cash transfer massage from Givedrectly because, I wasn't expecting such amount of money as gift from Givedrectly.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I been in this village since I was born, burning coal and marking cassava farm for survivor.
I haven't received such amount of money in my entire life. Since I receive my first cash transfer from Givedrectly, my children are in school, and have enough food to eat. I also bought one bundle of zinc to start preparation for my house project. I am so happy and want to extend thanks to Givedrectly.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I cash out my money received from Givedrectly, and bought one bundle of zinc, one pack of zinc nail, and did payment of my three children school fees.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I planned to build myself a house with my transfer here in this town. I house we are currently living in belong to my spouse Elder brother. Building my own dwelling place will be a great help to me and my family. I want to build house with everything in it including bathroom. If I received my transfer, I will construct on of the modern small house in the town. If I built my house and have place for my family to stay, I will start my provisions business. Food business is a problem here, people leave this village and traveled for 30 minutes to buy their provisions which I think is suffering and I must try to stop it.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I was happy, it was in September of this year when we sell our coal and generated some cash. We bought bought food and others provisions for the household and that brought joy to me. Today again I am happy for GiveDirectly to return to enroll we who were not able to be enrolled during your first visit. People said that we were not lucky and that you people were not going to return, so GiveDirectly is an NGO that lives up to her promised, I pray that donors continue to fund GiveDirectly in order to reach the other communities that are not part of this project because I know how difficult it is here nowadays.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My challenge now is finance to buy materials for my house construction. Could you imagine, I have 5 children here now 2 of them are Twin and they just turned 1 year 3 months old and have not walk. Taking care of them and at the same time working on the farm is challenging. If the finance is available, I will hire people to do the labor work on the farm while I take care of the kids.
