We check in with people at each stage of the cash transfer process to see how things are going. Take a look at some of their stories as they appear here in real-time.
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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($280 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?
Previously I planned to build a structure in Monrovia with all of my transfer because next school year I will have to move to town to continue my schooling; but my goal was completed in my first three transfer so I later decided to save this transfer for next school year to be able to pay my school fees and buy my school materials.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly do well by helping us and given us the opportunity to spend the transfer according to our own decisions or what best for us.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spend my last transfer to buy matress and I saved the balance to paid my school fees for the coming scooh year.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($276 USD)
access_time 2 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
My name is Hawah Burphy from Beh town, when I received my transfer from Give Directly I was happy I been planning on improving my house in my village.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly is doing well
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I'm planning on improving my house
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($279 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 plan to improve my house by plastering, painting, plan to buy mattress, plan to pay my school fees and I am also planning to save some of the money.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly did well for me because, I was sitting in this town not going to school because, my parents could not afford money to send me to school. After receiving this transfer from give directly, I was able to paid my school fees and right now, I am happily in school.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought mattress, bought cement to start the plastering process, I have paid my school fees and I am saving some of the money.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($284 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
My name is Hawa Burphy from Beh town Dowein District Bomi County. I was very very happy when I received my cash transfer on my phone because I was worried to how get money to go back to school and money to renovate my house.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Presently, I am now going to school and have the confidence now that I will renovate my house and buy other needed item.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I started school from my cash transfer and use some money to renovate my house as well.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Should I be qualified to receive money from Givedirectly, I intend to use the money for school fees because my mother had been unable to pay for my school fees since I dropped from school when I got promoted to the 8th Grade and became pregnant. It has been three years now since my aunt that was paying my school fees stopped because of my pregnancy, I have not been to school, and that it has been my dream to continue my education should anyone be able to help me. However, by being enroll in the GD program today makes me feel that my dream will come true because of the opportunity given me to be enroll. Secondly, my boy friend has been doing his best but the little he can get cannot pay my school fees and at the same time cater to our daughter. This had made it even more difficult for me to go back to school.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What had made me happy in the past six months is when I get food and money to take care of myself and my daughter. Two weeks ago, my daughter got seriously sick and that I didn't had any money to take her for treatment at the clinic. However, my mother provided me with small cash to take the child for treatment. That alone makes me very happy because my mother was able to help me meet my child's health needs and reduce my stress.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest difficulty that has faced me is money to pay for my school fees and cater to my daughter. Right now, I'm not doing anything of my own, that is, any business or farming activity that will give me money because I am a baby mam. Only my boyfriend can try to help me at times when God bless him with carpentry contracts. But the little he brings in is not enough to pay for my school fees and provide food for me and my daughter. Therefore, if I am bless to get money from Givedirectly it will really change my life by helping me go back to school and cater to my daughter.
