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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($280 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?
Initially I planned to improve my building but when I received the transfer my oldest daughter was very sick so I had to take her for treatment and now she is healthy.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly do well by supporting everyone in the community equally.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
My most recent transfer was used to treat my oldest daughter illness.
Enrolled
access_time 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
What I plan to do with the cash transfer is to start a business which I have always dreamed of and used the profit on my granddaughter education.
The only means of survival for me and my granddaughter is the little farming I do and through that I'm able to put bread on our table and pay her school fees. I lost my son who was helping me with almost everything leaving me with his daughter. I now have to get myself involved into farming as a means of survival.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What has brought me happiness or joy is whenever I see my granddaughter so eager to go to school after I have struggled to have her register and pay her school fees. Because I know the struggle I go through to find money to get her in school and Cater for her school needs. It makes me feel that my efforts in find money for her education is being taken very seriously by her.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The major challenge I am facing now in my life is to get money to start up a business to enable me cater for my granddaughter education and to put food on our table. I am really struggling to raise my granddaughter. Sometime I gets tired to beg people to help me with money to get her in school. And because of that, sometime she would miss school.
