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?
Our plans is to complete the house we are in presently and plaster it, because we built it and it was not complete when Givedirect came in our town and we started receiving money
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedirect make me to renovate my house, my children were not going back to school, now they are in school,we were not used to eat on time,we are eating on time, anything that I want to get, I can get it for myself this time.
All in all GD have changed my life
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
The money was used to purchased my family food and I bought house materials, like twenty bags of cement, woods and others materials
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($283 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 planned to renovate my house and my children school fees were the two things I have in mind
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Things were not very good with me over the past years, but thank God that I am doing fine unlike before through the Givedirect program
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Paid school fees and I bought house materials to renovate my house
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?
I feel happy because, in the past years, my children have been sitting and not going to school due to lack of money. But after receiving this money from give directly, I was able to send my children to school.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Paying my children school fees, buying some school materials for my children and buying zinc to improve my house with a new roof are all good things give directly did for me. My life has changed and I am not in proverty anymore.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I paid my children school fees, bought some school materials for my children and I also bought Zinc and cement to improve my house with a new roof.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
"What I plan to do with my cash transfer are, to build my own house for I and my family, reason is, I and my family are currently occupying one room in this house, I have my four children in Monrovia staying with people, whenever they come to visit they always sleep with friends because of the lack of sleeping capacity, so I want to build my own house in this town, on my mother's land so that my children, my husband and myself can have our own place to sleep. My next plan is to pay my children's school fees, those ones that are in Monrovia currently aren't going to school, which makes me feed bad, so putting them in school is another plan that I have."
What is the happiest part of your day?
"What brought me happiness in the last six months are, my little brother assisted me with four thousand liberian dollars ($4,000LD) which was so timely, at the same time his wife gave birth and he named the child after me, these things had brought me so much joy since last month up to now."
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
"The challenges I'm currently facing are, how to raise money to build my house, the hardship here is high, my husband who can hustle hadn't been feeling well, so all the responsibilities had been resting on me, I normally go to credit bag of rice from the store, when I sell it I return the cost and take the profit; plus the cassava farm produce, so these little earnings aren't enough. My next challenge is, paying my children's school fees, my husband is always sick, he isn't supporting the home like before, and I'm not doing any good Jobs, so these situations had placed us in serious financial hardship."
