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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($278 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?
I am Miatta Freeman From Joe town, Bomi county Liberia. Since I started receiving cash transfer from Givedirectly, I planned to continue payment of my children school fees, and building of my house.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion, Givedirectly transfer money to my mobile account in four installment and I am grateful to Givedirectly and those who contributed in marking my dream come true. I have not heard of anything that Givedirectly didn't do well in my village. I am so excited and want to extend thanks and appreciation to Givedirectly and those who contributed in taking me from one level to another.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Upon receiving my last cash transfer, I bought seventeen bags of cement, one load of sand and did payment of my children school fees.
3rd 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?
I have new plan which is to survey the land that I bought with my transfer.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly is doing everything well. I am now happy because, I have money to educate my children and do lots of things I couldn't afford to do before receiving the transfer.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I'm using my transfer to survey the land that I bought.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($299 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 main goal right now is to build another house in the city for my family.My mother is also seriously sick I want to do everything possible to heal her.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I love GiveDirectly because they are very truthful to us, whatever they say is what they can do, I also love their kind way of talking with me as well. I don't have anything bad to say about GiveDirectly, I am happy and satisfied with them.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I will use my second transfer to buy zinc and other building materials for my house project, I will also use some the money to fix the house I am living in right now. I will buy food with some of the money and then the remaining amount will be used for my mother hospital bills.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($283 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I feel fine because, I was facing so many problems and don't having the way out in order to get money and pay my children school fees. But after receiving the transfer from give directly, I was able to paid my children school fees.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
At first, I couldn't afford money to complete the land payment which was making me to over think. I over think because , if the payment was not completed, l could even loose the land because of money. I was not able to send my children to school and not having money to buy zinc and start to build my own house. But after receiving this money from give directly, I was able to solved these problems.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I paid my children school fees, bought zinc to build my own house and I also completed the payment for my land.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
If I'm successfully enrolled in to Give Directly's cash transfer program, I want to used some of the money to pay my children school fees.
The reason I want to pay my children fees is that, I feel that when they are educated, they will become a great help to our family, especially during our old age my husband and myself.
I also want to establish business with the balance money to enable us feed our home and also get the needs of my children as they go to school.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What has brought me joy or happiness in the last six months is when I saw Give Directly people entering our town this morning, knowing that they are always helping people inorder for them to help themselves.
For the past times, we have heard about them working in other nearby communities, but they haven't come to us which we have all been praying for, so seeing them in our town this morning brought me so much Joy or happiness.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
There are lots of challenges that my family is currently facing but most of it all is the lack of Money.
The only source of income for our family is through cassava farming but the money earned from the cassava sale and that of the fufu isn't enough to cover the needs of our family, especially feeding and paying the children school fees.
Even this house where we lived is yet to be completed but due to the lack of money, my husband and I haven't been able to fully complete our house.
