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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 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?
Yes I had plans before I received my transfer. I been planning to build my house
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 spent my most recent transfer on my kids school fees and building materials.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($278 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
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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?
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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($300 USD)
access_time almost 3 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, pay my son school fees, buy some school materials for my son, I plan to start treatment and to also start a new business.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly gave me phone. Through this phone, I am receiving money from give directly. This money really help me to paid my son school fees, started treatment, doing a new business and even trying to build my own house. At first, I was really thinking how will I solved all these problems because there was no money.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought zinc to start building my house, bought some school materials for my son, paid my son school fees, started treatment and I am also starting a business.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($284 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was happy because this is my first time for me to received such an amount of money from someone
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference have been, things have been so much hard for the past time, but now I am relief of lots of things that have been so embrassing to me
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought households materials and cement to plaster my house
Enrolled
access_time 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I intend to start a business to support my children in school. None of my children have been to school before since they were born because we don't have money to pay their school fees. The business will be a great help to us in that the little cassava farm we can make every year is not producing enough to enable us sell some of the cassava to get money for the children school fees. Everyday when other people children are going to school, they can be crying for me to prepare them for school. It has become so embarrassing that when ever school is open, I keep them indoors every morning until all of the school children in the town has left for school. It has always been my prayers that God should bless me with enough money to pay my children school fees.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What really makes me happy in the last six months was during the Ramadan or El Mubarak celebration. I received several presents from family, friends and love ones. I could believe that I am so love in my town.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
One of the major challenges facing me now is that I am unable to do hard work because I under went an operation on April 1st this year. This operation have been the main reason why I am unable to do any hard work now. It breaks my heart to see others sending their children to school and that I am not able to do the same for my children. How can they be able to do something for themselves if they grow up tomorrow? The world is changing now that education is so important to everyone. I did not go to school, but I was praying for God to help me with strength to raise my children well by sending them to school. This cannot happen now except someone else help me. So, if Givedirectly give me money, I will forever remain grateful and indebted to them.
