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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?
Actually i don't having new goals before receiving this transfer, I am my family's plan is to improve our house and make large rice farm.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give Directly was abel to improve my life and now I'm a entrepreneur running my own business. Right now I don't having anything on my mind that GD didn't do well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I was abel to purchase a bundles of zinc that will enable me put new roof on my house and Make large farm this year with my last transfer.
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?
my new goals was to established new business for me and my girlfriend and purchase zinc for construction because I'm sleeping in people house so I need my personal house to live in.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GD did well by giving me directly cash transfer and not passing through anybody's (Governments, Representative, Chiefs etc.)for feature embarrassment. Looking at things I had not seeing any things that GD not do well
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I was abel to buy new bundles of zinc and established new business such as selling cups of rice and others provision.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($284 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 want to firstly extend thanks and appreciation to Give Directly for the program. This program has been so helpful to us. In fact, I will called it a Life saving program because some of us never had any hope of achieving good thing in this village because of the hardship. I had lived in this village for more than eighteen years without any improvement in Life. Everything we do here is, from hand to mouth. Meaning, struggling for survival. My family and I were really suffering but when I got enrolled on Give Directly cash transfer program and started receiving cash directly, things has changed for me positively. My family and I are not hardship in getting food or anything for the family. We are now at ease and happily living together. In addition, I have bike on traffic and table market in this village that also us to generate more money. My new goal is to build my own house where me and my family can live happily. I bought house materials from the recent transfer for my building project.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Ensuring that Cash reach recipients directly and the follow up process
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
House materials
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($282 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was very excited when I saw the transfer message on my phone. It was like magic to me. I felt so happy and had the hope of starting my own business and relief of stress.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Before the program could cover me, life was very difficult for me. I used to set traps and make farms just to survive. Life in this jungle is very hard because we have to do labour work for survival. Things became very stressful for me during the heat of the COVID and even after however, Life started getting very easy for me when I received my first transfer. When I received my first transfer, I bought motorbike for business purpose. Right now, I have started running traffic with the bike and making my own money. I am so happy for the Give Directly program in changing my hardship to a good Life.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Bought motor bike
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Being a man with two children and a wife but still living in your parents house is a complete embarrassment for me so when I received money transfer from Give Directly, I will build my own house and leave from under my parents roof so that I will be respected.
What is the happiest part of your day?
From the sitting chairs I made there are lots of buyers awaiting me which has brought joy to me because I will used the money to register myself in school after I being out of school since 2016.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My major problem is how to get money to build my own house because most often am considered a worthless man who's still under my parents roof with with children and wife.
