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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($280 USD)
access_time almost 2 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Previously my activities were centered around farming and I also dropped out of school, but with the coming of Give Directly in my town my goal is to continue my education and also pay my children school fees and build my house.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give Directly do well so I give the glory to them that I was able to continue my education. There's nothing bad Give Directly did that I don't like.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
My most recent transfer was solely spend on livestocks only.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($276 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?
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In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
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What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
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Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($265 USD)
access_time 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was on campus, when I saw this massage on my phone saying, I have received money from GiveDirectly. I started dancing, then my friends being to asked why I was dancing, I told them GiveDirectly send me money. And when I went home after school I told my husband about the good thing GiveDirectly did, and he said thank God.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I was unable to pay my daughter and I school fees and I also unable to complete my house, but since I started receiving money from GiveDirectly I was able to pay my daughter and I school fees and I was able to buy cement to plaster my house.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought ten bag of cement to plaster my new house.I also pay my daughter and I school fees.Then I Bought tow half bag of rice for my family and I to eat.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I'm planning of going to school and sending my two girls children to school, because i believe when they are educated I have archived. And I'm also planning in mind to rebuild my house and starting a business to keep myself going.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I haved been wishing to apply for midwifery entrance, and in the last six months saving some cash I was successful to apply. This brought joy and happiness in my family.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
School fees and food are some of the challenges my family and I are faced with right now. Sometimes to get food a day is not easy my husband and I go around on some village dwellers farms help them sell their crops and the profit is given to us. I use this money to buy food for my family to eat, sometimes when there's no crops or contract available we don't eat.
