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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Used it to pay debt and added the rest to my bisnay
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly do well because dome of us didnt have money to pay debts do bisnay. The field officers did extremely by not taking bribe like eating food accepting gifts and others.
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
1st and second transfer went in my business coal bisnay last money pay debt of 33,000 because o was taken court the balance I added it to my bisnay again
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($299 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my transfer on getting more things for my new business I have started.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion, GIVEDIRECTLY is doing everything well. What GIVEDIRECTLY needs to look into is working with the MTN Company when it comes to giving recipients mutilated notes.
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
My new goal now is getting into a new business which I have already started.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($297 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent most of my recent transfer on my children's education and buying coal bags for my new business.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly is doing well by giving people money to do what they can do inorder for them to help themselves. But for what they are not doing well, I haven't discovered yet.
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
My new plan is starting a coal business, buying and selling coal. I believe that the coal business will enable me to maintain my own cash even when GiveDirectly is no longer giving us help. And I can save to buy my land.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($267 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have being praying to start a coal business so upon receiving the transfer i was able to buy bags to put my coal in after burning it , im also paying hire help to cut the wood and im eating nutritional food nowadays. This is how i spent my transfer.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference is that im able to hired someone now to burn coal cutt the wood for me i wont do daily hired help job because i have money to start my coal business and even pay people to work for me. I am eating nutritional meal now. May God bless GiveDirectly.
Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was in the clinic when i heard a loud noise in the town people shouting that they have receved messages with their transfer payment so i ran to my house upon reaching i saw my wife shouting and screaming that her message came on her phone i almost burst into tears because as my leapt for joy. It has being really tough , had to help people on their farms to so i could put food on the table. I was hired as daily help for $300 LD to work on farms till i almost loss hope. But my hope was reawaken from the money GiveDirectly send because i wont work as hire help again but will start my own business.
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access_time 3 years ago
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
" Currently in our village, there is only one high school which is unable to accommodate all of the students hailing from here. As a result of this, I sent three of my children Monrovia to live with my sister. Earning money for their upkeep and tuition is a major challenge for me."
What is the happiest part of your day?
" Since my wife and I met, we have not been able to have a kid of our own, as God could have it, she conceived recently and we are expecting a male child."
What does receiving this money mean to you?
" By the grace of God, if I'm qualified to receive this grant, my wife and I will start the construction of our dwelling place. The house we currently live in is an inherited house, where we don't have that absolute privacy.
Secondly, I plan to invest in my wife's education (Vocational)."
