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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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was in my town early in the morning when I received an lert on my phone.I didn't really bother to check. Reason was due to the unnecessary constant alert from Lonestar. Few minutes later, I decided to scroll through my phone. That was when I saw the message from Givedirectly indicating the payment.
I was excitingly excited that Givedirectly has sent me such a huge amount. With pleasure, eagerly awaited the moment to cashout my transfer and use it to solve my problems.
I can't express how greatful I am to be a recipient. Thank God for Givedirectly.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
This transfer has made a big difference in my life. Since I started receiving this money, things have changed from bad to good. What else can I say ? It's just to express how greatful I am for the transformational intervention made by Givedirectly in a timely manner. I really needed money and with God, things are better now.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Since I am already doing business, I used my money to buy addition goods purposely to increase my business. I similarly used portion of my transfer to pay my children tuition because that was one of my major challenges. Thank God that Givedirectly came and today I am a bit free from financial bondage.
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What does receiving this money mean to you?
If I'm successful to receive this money I will improve my business and complete the building of my video club which I have been struggling to do.
The reason I want to improve my business and complete the building of my video club is that, the money I earn from the job I was doing, I use some to invest in to business and use the balance to build a video club because we don't have video club in this town and most of the men in this town love football games and they go to another town to witch the game. I decided that instead of them going out to watch the game let me build a video and a shop as means of earning money to maintain my family but the money was not enough to complete the building of the video club.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In the last six months, what has brought me joy or happiness is when the nearby community gathered to play friendly match football games in October 2021, they bought enough items from my shop and I make over ten ( $10,000) thousand Liberian dollars It brought me so much happiness because, for the past two weeks business has not been going but for the fact that they came and buy most of my goods, it makes me happy.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I am facing lots of challenges but the main one is money.
Since I invested into to business, the buying of the items
I sell is not encouraging. What gives me more money is the video club but it hasn't been completed yet, am still struggling to complete it.
The money I earn from the business at times, I ues some to do some work on the video club and use the balance on food.
