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Dorcus
landscapeCountry:
liberia
workOccupation:
Subsistence farming
faceAge:
28
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Liberia Large Transfer
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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($276 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?
I plan to see my father's getting get soon. I really want to save some of my in a village saving club. I also want to invest some of my transfer into my business. I wish to resign from being security and focus on my business alone.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give Directly has done so much for me that I can not tell it all. Am a single mother with three kids am the breadwinner for my family. I have worked as security for the past five years and I was earrings little of nothing. Through Give Directly, I was able to support my children. Give Directly has changed my life completely I will like to give them my appreciation for saving my life from poverty to good life.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used my money to buy cement. I plaster my house, I also put a ceiling and printed my house. I also added my to my business and bought food and pay my children's school fees.
 
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($289 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?
The new goal I have set before receiving this transfer is for me to keep this transfer in saving club which will enable me think about suitable businesses like used clothes or foodstuffsto start selling. My husband and I separated for a year now and he abandoned three children with me. Life has been challenging for me to take over the family burden all alone. I believed that when I start to sell used clothes or foodstuff in this Village, I will be able to generate enough money to pay my children and I school fees.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion,Givedirectly is very much transparent in implementation. Givedirectly is one of the best Organization in Liberia for now. Their staffs are well trained in how to deal with recipients. Givedirectly has help to empower thousands of recipients to improve their ways of living. Thanks to Givedirectly for the jobs well done. I don't see any area where Givedirectly needs improvement.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used my most recent transfer to put some in saving club which will enable me plan properly before starting to sell. The balance money was used to buy Christmas clothes for my three children. Thanks to Givedirectly for empowering me financially. I believe that with my transfer, my hope will surely be restore.
 
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($297 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 was living in my own old house with my family but all my little cash went towards my children education. With the help from Givedirectly, I have developed a new goal. My new goal is to now improve my old house. I never had the planned to recondition my house because I paid my children fees with the first transfer. Currently, I am using this second transfer to recondition my old house. Now I am the happiest today because my life have changed and my children are now in school. Thanks to Givedirectly for the great help.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I appreciate the help from Givedirectly. Givedirectly did well by making me to get respect in my community and even among my friends. GiveDirectly has selected recipients so fairly. That I think they have done well. In my opinion what GiveDirectly has not done well is the cash out process. We use a large part of our transfer for transportation and the stress in withdrawing from the agent has been so immense. If only Givedirectly can bring the agent to us, I will be happy.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
With the help from Givedirectly , I have been able to buy some house materials like mattress, cothes, enough food and pay my children school fees. When my husband abandoned me and the children, life became hard. Sustaining the family was a challenge. But now , I can afford my daily meals without worrying and stress. My life is getting better from the two transfer. I feel so excited. I now have hope of bettering my family's life.
 
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($260 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
The moment I received my first transfer, I felt very happy because as a single mother caring for three children, my planned has been to complete the incomplete house my children and I has been living in for long time. I couldn't get over receiving such a huge money with out suffering for it. The whole night was a joyful one for me imaging seeing myself with such a huge money with out working for it. With this transfer, I will solve our sleeping place problem.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving this money are, I am now able to provide regular and rich meal for my children two times daily. pretty soon, my children and I living conditions will change from sleeping in an open cold house to a decent place where they will no longer get sick again.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used the money to buy10 bags of cement and a pickup load of sand to plaster our house, I have prepaid contractors to start next week with our house plastering . part of the transfer was used to buy 20garantees ceiling tiles and will be used to cover the upper part of our rooms. With this transfer, I believed my long awaited planned to live a better life as single parent with my children has been met.
 
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access_time over 2 years ago
 
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I want to make business to complete my mother's house , built my own house and buy motorbike and get more money to take care of my family.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I never had place to stay, the joyeous thing for me is being able to sleep in my own house. Though its not yet completed but i am so glad that i have my own place.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I am a High school drop out, and i want to go back to school. I don't have money to go back to school and at the same time take care of my family. The men of this village only have children by us and dump us.