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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 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?
RE: I was a full time farmer before the coming of givedirectly in my community, it was from the harvest we survived which was difficult.
Life has been difficult because of our low budget as a family, surviving was all we taught of as a family but today we are grateful to givedirectly for everything.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
RE: Am will advise the givedirectly family to keep up their trend of work because it is amazing and unique for any organisation.
Givedirectly is doing an overly amazing job for we the under privilege people in Liberia, therefore we can not thank you all enough but our God will bless you all at givedirectly.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
RE: I spend the most of my money on purchasing zinc for the construction of my new house.
It is because of givedirectly transfer i am having a dream of constructing a new house which would have been impossible because of our financial constraints.
All this is possible because of givedirectly transfers which I may say restorated us from our level of poverty.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($300 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I now have new idea of building a new house in for my old age.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I have not see any wrong with Give Directly processes yet so far
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I am saving my money to do onetime payment for my new house materials I want to build.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($296 USD)
access_time 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Yes,my son was to build my house but he later told me that he never had money.Now that I have received my transfer IAM building it myself
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedirectly is really doing well for me and I see nothing bad that they are doing
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent all my transfer on my building project
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($267 USD)
access_time 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
RE:"I wokeup that morning to the noise of neighbours rejoicing in celebration of receiving the givedirectly money so right away i asked my son to check my account to see if mine have also come, when he check my account he than confirmed that my money was on my phone immediately i join the dancing and started celebrating with so much happiness ".
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
RE: "Before givedirectly could send me this money i could only dream of sleeping in a house with zinc but today because of givedirectly transfer i see that dream becoming a reality and i am overly excited and thankful to givedirectly that i even call to the office previously to tell givedirectly thank you for this good you people are doing for us".
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
RE: "I am thinking about spending my money to buy zinc and plank to build my house but right now am still waiting for my second to correct the money for those two things (zinc and plank) which is my major focus at the moment ".
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access_time 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
If God blesses me to benefit from GiveDirecy cash transfer program, I intend to build my house with the transfer. As you can see I live in a house which does not have zinc, bricks and ceiling. I have lived in this thatch house for the past one year and don't have the capacity to change the thatch to zinc. If I qualify for this cash transfer program, the money will be used to change the thatch to zinc and to also build the house with bricks instead of the mart you are seeing around the house.
What is the happiest part of your day?
When my house broke down, I didn't have anywhere to sleep but the town people rally around me and helped me to quickly built a thatch house which I am now staying in currently. This brought joy to me because when I needed them the most, they were there for me.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The challenge I currently faced is that I don't have a good sleeping place. Any time there is a heavy downpours of rain, the water enters my room from the ground and also from the roof. As a result of this, I don't sleep at night any time rain falls. I have been living with this condition for more than one year. I had a better house than this but I was in the house and the sticks got rotten and while sleeping one day, the house felt on me. I had no other option but to build a mart house with thatch to be sleeping in it for the time being.
