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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?
I have been planning to build my house until this opportunity came. However, my only goal was to build my house and I also invested all my last money in building my house. I have completed building my house I am only left with the doors to be install.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my mind GiveDirectly did well for the help they give me and my children, I am so much grateful. In terms of not doing well I have not seeing any bad side yet.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I use my last transfer to bought Zinc, zinc nail and also pay workmanship and also bought gas to Saw my wood for roofing.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($289 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?
My new goal is to build my own house. I had lived in this village for more than 30 years now without any improvement in my Living conditions. The issue of building my own house had been my greatest worry but couldn't achieve this goal because of the hardships in this village but I'm so thankful to Give Directly for putting smiles on my face and for giving me some status in this village. Give Directly program has given me the opportunity to build my own house and I can now boost of my own house materials for the building process. I am very excited and appreciating Give Directly for this program.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Giving cash directly to recipients and the monitoring system
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
House materials
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($269 USD)
access_time 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was verify happy to hear from my son that money was in my phone, I began to dance and calling the rest of my grand children to come and hear the good news.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I have been able to register my children in school on time, and we now have enough food to eat and on time than before.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have withdraw part of money and I registered my children in school, I have paid for Zinc in Cesto to reroof my house.
Enrolled
access_time 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I want to send my children to school and to do my small market. The reason I say I want to send my children to school is,I did not go to school to learn any book. After my parents died I went to live with my aunty, She did not have the time for my education.I was kept home to do all the house jobs and today I can't even read or write. Every day I wake up from bed I try looking for something to do just to raised money for my children to be educated and also to sell.I can see some of my friends in our village here who during Christmas their children comes with lots of gift, do know the reason because they send their children to school and today the same children is looking after them. So as soon I get this money, all my children will go to the Mission school and I know that one day they will come back with gifts to visit me. That my whole plan there for this money. Education and getting my self a good business so I can stopped working on the farm.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Now for the last six months I can say with all the problems I am still happy,reason is that I spend ten thousand just to make my beniseed farm I worked on that farm tirelessly but now I am harvesting and the money I have generated from the sale is almost to the amount I spend and more is still there to harvest. When I go on the farm every morning I smile with so much joy because I am reaping what I sow.I am grateful for this and very happy.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Getting food and money during the rainy season is my current challenge. I wake up early in the morning to get in the bush, cut baboons to weave basket. The basket I sell some and the rest of it I carried it on the water every day to set it, any thing I catch from there can be sold and the little be left for eating. But when the rain gets heavy no way to get out, by that time the hunger can almost want to kill us. No more selling now because I can't go on the water again so I focus on my farming work to plant crops just to keep the children and myself moving on. Getting food and money money now is my current problem I see that I have.
