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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 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 had plans before I received my transfer. I been planning to start a small business in my village
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly is doing well
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I'm planning on improving my house
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 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?
Since I started receiving cash transfer from Givedirectly,I decided to renovate my house, buy a second handle motor bike, and continue payment of my son school fees.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedrectly Staffs can't accept anything from people.They believe in helping the needed. They are trustworthy, and always checking in to find out if I receive cash transfer.I am so proud of Givedirectly and want to extend thanks.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Upon cashing out my money, I bought four bags of cement, did payment of my son's school fees and save the balance money to transport my cement.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($284 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 had plans to educate my kid and renovate my house before receiving the transfer from Givedirectly.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion Givedirectly is doing everything well, because my life has improved greatly since I started receiving transfer from Givedirectly.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I paid my son tuition and bought zinc with my balance transfer to renovate my house.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($284 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
My name is Morris Abdu ID-1795144 from Lonoe Town Dowein District Bomi County.
My brother I felt so so happy when I received my first cash transfer, because honestly speaking I haven't received such a money at once in my life.
I produce charcoal, do farming work and don't earn such a money on my own.
When I saw my message, I called my wife we both planned and set a day to withdraw our cash. And we did.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
May living conditions has improved, I am not worried as before
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought building materials and paid my children school fees
Enrolled
access_time 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
If I am successful to receive the money, I will invest into coal production at the highest level. Meaning I will pay people to brush huge portion of my farm land, cut the sticks so I can produce coal out of it for sale. Although I am engaged into coal production now, however, it is at small scale because I am alone doing it. So if I am successful to receive the cash, I will make it bigger by paying people to help me. When I sell the coal and realise more money; in other words when the money multiplied, then I will also give some to my spouse to engage in to fish business . She will go to town, buy fish and come seel same in the community here. We have made a plan long time so she will engage in the fish business, but we have not had enough money for that.
Although as I said earlier I am riding bike, and planning to save for the business, however, I am not making more money from the bike riding like before because of fear of being kill by ritualistist.
So where I used to ride in Monrovia, I am no more running traffic there; Instead in the communities around here. As the result of that, I am not earning much again from the bike riding.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Yes,like yesterday, I was very happy because somebody was able to credit me half bag of rice ( 25kg) to pay later. That really made me happy because for the past two weeks my family and I been out of food and that brought unhappiness in the home. But since I received the rice, we happy for until maybe the rice can finish.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The major challenge for me here is how to raise money to do those things I mentioned earlier. As I said before, I am riding bike supporting the home, and saving some cash from the riding to be able to invest into business. But the bike riding is not giving me more money like before because I have Changed location as it relates to where I ride the bike - instead of riding in Monrovia and its environs , I am now riding in the communities around here. And that is not earning me money like before.