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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($243 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I don't having new goals before receiving this transfer, i was able to Purchase a land before receiving this transfer, I'm planning to pay the balance money to complete the payment.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
With the help of Give Directly I'm now a land owner in the city, i don't know anything that GD did that is not well, all is okay .
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I was able to Pay for the remaining money for the land i bought i Monrovia, with this land I'm my children will be having a place in Monrovia.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($244 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?
I don't having new goals before receiving this transfer i firstly plan to Purchase land and i was able to engage the land payment in the city, with this i will be planning to build my own house in the feature.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give Directly did well by giving me direct cash transfer to obtain my personal Land and paying of my children balance school fees ; without GD i couldn't benefit the purchasing of land in the city. Looking at things I don't know anything that GD did that is not well; all is okay from my side.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I was able to Pay for my land in the city and pay my children balance school fees . Right now I'm a land owner in the city and my children are now in school.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($246 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?
RE: Before the coming of givedirectly i worked as a gold miner which am still doing.
I have been doing well with my kind of business/job, thou it have not been all easy but we are still surviving.
I have always had a plan to purchase my own land in Monrovia to build a house for my family, but i could only afford to pay for it small small in six months time or a year, now with givedirectly cash transfer i was able to do a dim payment i might be completing payment next month.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
RE: Givedirectly help me acquire what i couldn't for years even after planning so many times.
In my opinion, givedirectly is doing excellently well with this program.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
RE: I have always had a plan to purchase my own land in Monrovia to build a house for my family, but i could only afford to pay for it small small in six months time or a year which won have taken longer time.
But now with givedirectly cash transfer i was able to do a dim payment this month and i might be completing payment next month.
I split my transfer into two equal half, pay my children school fees and make a dim payment on a land
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
35625 LRD ($234 USD)
access_time almost 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was feeling very happy because the first people received, I was not a part but the second time I received my first money I am very happy.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference in my life now is preparing my children futures by sending them to school with my first transfer.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I pay my children school fees with my first transfer that I have received.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I am currently suffering in this remote village, I went to school but since my father died, I haven't had any opportunity to go to school. Getting this money, I will build myself a new house and send my newphews school.
What is the happiest part of your day?
My Sister is a currently in JFK she just gave birth by C-section, I'm grateful she had a safe delivery, that is my most recent I'm happy.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I'm the current bird winner for family, I don't have a job, I have to bush people farm for money, work as a contractor for daily survivor, my my mother solely depends on me, I have to labour from this side before I send money to her, therefore better housing, lack of education for my nephews and standard living for my family are my current challenges.
