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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($230 USD)
access_time 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I hope to get all my house materials this year and then embark on building a new house next year
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedirectly has enforced my plan for building a new house.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I took 20000LED and saved with my saving club while the balance was used to pay for my plank
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
35625 LRD ($232 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
It was one bright morning I was behind the house wishing my son clothes. I heard people shouting that they have received money from GiveDirectly, so I immediately started checking my phone, then I saw a message that I have received 35625 from GiveDirectly. I was so happy, and the first thing that came to my mind was to buy my bundles of zinc to start my house construction which I been planning to do long time.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Building a house has really been my dream because my husband and I been living in his family people house. But now that I have started receiving money from GiveDirectly, I am about to build my own house, I know that my life have changed completely from GiveDirectly transfer and I am so grateful.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
My most recent transfer was spent on buying bundles of zinc for the construction of my new dwelling place, and I also used some of the money to purchase food and save the balance so that when the next transfer comes I can start my construction process.
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access_time over 1 year ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I am a 28 year old mother of three children and an uneducated woman as wll. I was not afforded the opportunity to acquired education due to the financial incompetency of my parents. It is ultimate hope to educate my kids to the fullest as a means giving them a brighter future. Presently, my husband and I only survive on casual work to substain our family. 100, 000 of my transfer will go to business so that the profits can be use to pay my kiks tuition for every academic year as the business prospers while the remaining amount goes to wards my building project.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In the month of March 2022, my husband's family brought joy to me by sponsoring a major aspect of our rice farm project. They organized themselves in to a group of twenty five (25) members that work kn my worked on my farm on two different occasions. We didn't have a plan of making farm this year because there was no money to undertake the cost. For one year now I have been purchasing cups of rice daily to feed my three children and ourselves. Even though finance remains our major challenge but I am joyful that a month from now there will be little bit of food supply in the home.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My husband and I are both uneducated. We only survive on casual work to substain our threekids and ourselves. My husband is a sawyer. The little money he generates from the sawing is what we use to settle all family burdens. Finance remains our major hardship presently. Last year there were no money as a result, we didn't make a rice farm. We are presently surviving on the purchase of cups of rice. Whatever my husband generates is what we use for our daily food.
