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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?
I plan to pay my children school fees, I plan to buy food for the house and I also plan to buy motor bike to do a business.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly gave me money to start business on my own and to also paid my children school fees.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought motor bike to do business, I bought food for the house and I have also paid 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 plan to pay my children school fees, plan to buy mattress and I also plan to gave some of the money to my husband to buy motor bike for business.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly did well for me because, in the past months, I used to pick kiss meat from the beach before my children and I can survive. But after receiving this transfer from give directly, I was able to paid my children school fees, and even trying to start a new business.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I paid my children school fees,I bought mattress and my husband has bought the motor bike for business.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($285 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 goals that I didn't have before receiving the transfer. My new goal is to educate my children with my transfer.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly is doing everything well because my life has been very difficult but since I started receiving transfer everything is going well with me.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used my transfer to pay my kids tuition, and started business with the balance transfer.
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 felt very happy when I received the transfer sent to me. This is my first time handling such amount all my life, and my kids weren't in school so receiving that money give me so much joy.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
My life is different now since I started receiving the transfer from Givedirectly. My family and I could barely afford food most times. My kids weren't in school because of lack of finance to pay their tuition. I went to deep swamp finding kiss meat to sell for $300 Liberian Dollars just to earned a living for my kids and I.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I pay my kids school fees and improved my house.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
"What I plan to do with my cash transfer is to invest into dry goods business, reason is, things had not been easy on my family, my husband and I don't have any good jobs, he's a motorcyclist, and I go about picking kissmeats, and making cassava farm, the little we generate is what we feed on daily, but with dry goods business which can really sell in this place, I'll be able to reduce burden and help support the home, and help send the children to school as well."
What is the happiest part of your day?
"What had brought me happiness in the last six months is that, my elder sister's daughter got married, she's the first person within the family to get married, and more over, getting marry at her young age brought me so much pride."
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
"The challenges I'm currently facing are, firstly, the issue of raising money to start my dry goods business, secondly, paying my children's school fees, of late, things had not been easy on my family, my husband and I don't have any good jobs, he's a motorcyclist, and I go about picking kissmeats, and making cassava farm, the little we generate is what we feed on daily, but with dry goods business which can really sell in this place, I'll be able to reduce burden and help support the home, and help send the children to school as well."
