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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
264000 MWK ($339 USD)
access_time 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Life has changed completely because of the assistance given
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly has helped me to have the things that I needed after receiving the money
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
We have managed to buy a bed, mattress, 20 iron sheets and other things that I needed after receiving the money
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
271500 MWK ($351 USD)
access_time 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I felt really great knowing that I will buy the things I need
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
My life has changed completely because have a new matress and some furniture.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have managed to buy matress and some furniture with the transfer received from give directly
Enrolled
access_time over 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
To be honest receiving this money means a huge blessing for me,i have never been in any cash transfer programme this is my first time and for me to receive such an amount of money it's really a blessing.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The happiest part of the day is during evenings usually in the mornings I always move from one village to another to search for small jobs and I'm always scared that if i won't find one my children will stay the whole day without anything in their stomach so I'm the happiest in the evenings because thats when i get to eat properly after a whole day of casual labour.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest hardship is finding ways to earn a reasonable amount of Money, all I do to earn a living is doing casual labour's such as cultivating people's farms and these jobs are seasonal,as I'm talking to you I have a glass fatched house that leak with no mercy I always wake up in the middle of the night when ever it's raining to stand in the corner of the house to avoid getting my self soaked,I plan to use this transfer to renovate my whole house and to buy food for the entire year.
