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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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I purposely plan to build my house prior to receiving the money, because I don't have a house and I am currently living in people houses.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Well, I don't want to talk much about GD because it is through Givedirect I am about to build my house.
When and where I was going to get money from, if GD had not given me money to help myself.
I am so thankful to God first and Givedirect second for making me to be able to do something good for myself
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent the money on the house materials including zinc and nails and other related items for house
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($281 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 build house, plan to pay my son school fees and I am also planning to buy food.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Building my house, paying my son school fees and buying food for my house are great things that give directly people have done for me..
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought zinc to start building my house, I paid my son school fees and I also bought food for my room.
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?
The moment I received the money, I was very happy because I wasn't expecting this money. I never believed in the program from the beginning, I thought it was fake because this is my first experience with NGO giving people such money.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference in my daily life is my life is different now since I started receiving transfer from Givedirectly. I stopped making charcoal and now decided to start a business.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my transfer on business and improving my house.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
"What I plan to do with my cash transfer is, to buy land and build my house right in this town, reason being, when our children sometimes come to visit us it causes serious embarrassment, the single room is too small to contain everybody, so, if I build my house then this will not be an issue, my children will have their own room/rooms to lay their heads."
What is the happiest part of your day?
"In the last six months what brought me happiness is, when ever I wake up and see myself well in body and that of my husband, and children I feel so excited and begin to praise the Lord."
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
"The challenges I'm currently faced with are, 'One', finding food is difficult, we do lot of hard work before raising money to buy food and other things, we have to cut sticks in the bush and burn it for charcoal/fire coal, we sell these charcoal to raise money. We also harvest the cassava and sell it so as to have cash to do other things; this is how we hustle to feed our home, but these activities generate only little, which isn't sufficient to start my project which is my second challenge, after attending to other basic needs."
