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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($276 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 been planning on improving my house
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 spent my most recent transfer on building materials and my small business
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($300 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 plan to pay my children school fees, build my house, buy food, buy some clothes for my children, make a large farm and I also plan to do business.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Paying my children school fees, trying to start a business, building a house, buying food for the house and also seeing myself as a business woman makes me very happy. So these are all the good things give directly people did for me.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I paid my children school fees, bought Zinc trying to build my house, bought food, bought some clothes for my children and trying to start a business.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($298 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 have new goals. I'm planning on building my house, send my children and myself to school
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly is doing better, but sometimes not everybody can be enrolled in the county or village.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
l Spent my most recent transfer on my building materials, my children school fees and my small business
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 was very happy the moment I received the money. My husband is not working so our kids weren't register in school. Things were very difficult with us but the transfer give directly send us helped us solved so many problems. Our kids are now register and going to school.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I have been struggling to get money to pay my kids school fees but since I started receiving transfer my kids are registered with out me crediting to pay tuition. There are so much improvement in my daily life since I started receiving payments.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent the money on my kids Education, food and am saving the balance to build my house.
Enrolled
access_time 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I have been faced with so many problems over the years, because of the many children that I have currently.
If I'm successful for this program, my husband and I will plan to pay our children school fees as
also plan to make business with some of the money.
We have also been making plans in how to build our own house so if the money is plenty to help us to that, we will also use some to do so.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Well, this other question hard for me because for the past six months nothing has make me happy except bad feeling, that is my grand mother who brought me up just died two months ago.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I have been faced with plenty problems, as you can see the amount of children that I have, I got them by two different fathers and the man who he and myself living together is just helping me because he and my self don't have children.
All of them father have abondened them with me so feeding them and also trying to sent them to school has been a serious trouble for me because my husband here is not doing much to be able to do everything for us.
