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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($278 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?
My first goal was to fix the room that I'm sleeping in right now, I have achieved that goal and my new goal is to build my own house. The house I am living in now belongs to my extended family which I don't want to fully depend on, building a house for myself will help my children to inherit something from me in the future.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well by helping us in an unexpected way, giving money unconditionally is a real perfect program that has changed my life, I haven't seen this before but I thank God for GiveDirectly, they are also kind during our conversation with them; I don't think GiveDirectly is not doing well because everything is well with me.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used my most recent transfer to buy some building materials for my house project, I also bought food with the transfer, the balance is being saved for future purpose.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($299 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I want to build a house because the one I am living in right now belongs to my family and I want to have my own. I don't have anything major to do right now except for my house project.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion, GiveDirectly people speak to me kindly anytime I am being interviewed,they are also helping us unconditionally and above all they are very sincere. I don't have anything wrong to say about GiveDirectly, everything is okay to me.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used my third transfer to buy zinc and other materials to start building my own house, I also bought print and other furnitures to fix the room that I am presently staying in. I also bought food for my family, the remaining amount has been kept for my house expenses.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($299 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Yes, I had planned to renovate my parents house
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly can do everything good
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I'm planning on building my own house in my village
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($269 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I feel so happy because, the transfer really came the right time where in, I was able to solve some problems.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Before, I was not living a suitable life. After receiving the transfer, I started improving my life.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought cement bags to improve my house with a new roof. I am also saving some of the money to do prepare planning before using the transfer.
Enrolled
access_time 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
If successful, we will send our children to school because now we don't have money to send them to school. The fufu we can prepare to sell and send them to school , this time the fufu is not giving us enough monry to enable us feel ourselves and also send them to school. There are lot of people selling fufu this time, because of that, we are not earning enough money out of it like before.
What is the happiest part of your day?
We were happy on the last Ramadan that just passed. We were happy because it was big day. Besides that day, I can't remember which other day or days we were happy during the period mentioned.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The challenge here is food issue. The low and high land rice farming we doing these days doesn't produced enough yields. As the result, we are most time out of food.
