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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?
I don't have any new goal. My goal previously has been to build a house for my family and that is the goal that I am working to achieve.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I am very proud of GiveDirectly. For one fact, GiveDirectly has changed our living conditions. Some of us have been living in thatch houses since we were born. However, GiveDirectly has empowered us financially to build modern houses within our community.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used my recent transfer to pay the contractor who is building my house.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($278 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?
Lucy, before GD came, I planned to build a house but could not be realized due to lock of funding. My entire life is just farming and the products sales could not start a house. I was enrolled as a recipient on the GD program and received my first and second transfers. With the first and second transfers, I can now start to build a house of my own.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Firstly, I want to take this time to say a very big thanks to Give Directly for services rendered us during the entire enrollment process was very transparent. You did a great and excellent job.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I was able to buy three (3) bundles of zinc and paid people to cut the Sticks for the building. I was also able to buy food and paid my children school fees. Thanks to the entire Give Directly family for the transfer that will enable me to own a house.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($262 USD)
access_time 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was extremely happy when I started receiving the cash transfer. I was worried because our house is roof with tash, and not in any good condition. It could fall at anytime because of the heavy downpour of rain. My husband has problem with his hand and can no longer do hard work by going into the bush to cut tash and change our house roofed. Fortunately for us Give Directly came to our aid. Thanks ever so much for the assistance given us.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference the cash transfer made in our lives was to reduced our worries of the tash roofed house breaking on us. We will soon have a better home to live in.Thanks again GD.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought one bundle of zinc, and then saved the balance cash.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I am a mother of five children who been residing in this delapetated structure built with mud and sticks with thatched roof . The roof of this house can leak during rainy season which always destroyed lot of our house materials for including our cloths. We have been in need of cash to construct a house to accumulate our family and I see this census process as the give way to our longtime plans to build house with corrugated sheets on roof. GiveDirectly will forever be remembered in my life if the I am opportune to receive the unconditional cash transfer on my mobile money account.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I have many children to attend to of whom some are attending school in Webbo. When their school fees are on hand ,it brought me joy and happiness. The second is when my spouse return from his tracks and bring with him animals, the children including myself can be too happy and he does that almost every morning per day .
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Being a wife of a physically challenged husband is a situation that one could not ask God for when accident occurred. And you don't ask God why it happened to you either. My husband was our center of attention in term of everything as a family until he lost one of his fingers in a mouth of his cousin when he went to divide two persons who were exchanging blows in a fight . He hardly plat parpo (a special made design for thatches in the form of corrugated sheets for roof) to replace the leakages of our house. And his inability to work like he does before is a challenge to us. We are facing problem for the payment of our two children school fees since the incident happened.
