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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD
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?
I want to keep getting enough money in the coming years to start a new business, that will help me in sending my children to high school.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly did well by helping me with sufficient money to start building my house and to support my children in school without accepting anything from me in return.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have been living in an old and small mud bricks house for more than ten years and I don't feel satisfy living in such a deplorable structure, the money I received from GiveDirectly was used to buy building materials inorder to build my new concrete house.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD
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?
I don't having new goals before receiving this transfer, I'm planning to build my own house in this town.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
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What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I was able to Purchase cements and others house materials for the construction of my house and purchased additional zinc.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
35625 LRD
access_time 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
The level of joy and relieved I am feeling since I started receiving payment from GiveDirectly cannot be explained. This money came the time I was really in need of money to for my children's school fees. With this transfer my worried about how to raise money to for my children's school fees this year had been put to rest. This bring me great excitement.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Life before GiveDirectly had not really been favourable for my family due to financial constraints. As a farmer not much was earned from the sale of crops due to the bad road condition and the distance to market. For this reason I couldn't afford money to pay my children's school fees and this cause them to dropped out of school last year. Happily GiveDirectly came with this financial freedom and relieved and I am extremely excited to see my children getting prepared for school this year. All thanks to GiveDirectly for this financial opportunity.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
After receiving my recent transfer, with the desire to see my children back in school after they dropped out of school last year due to lack of money for them to continue their education, I used a portion of the money and registered all three of them. Additionally I used the remaining money to buy their school materials. I am so grateful to GiveDirectly for this financial opportunity that will be of help for my children going back to school.
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access_time 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
"It is my hope that when I am selected by GiveDirectly, I will use send my children to school and build another modern house.
What is the happiest part of your day?
"For the past 6months, the only thing that has brought me joy is the successful burning and planting of my farm. But of recent, the most sadden thing was when I got sick".
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
"My greatest challenge currently is the issue of sleeping place and to enroll my children in school. It is lack of money that I am unable to do these things"
