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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?
My new goal was to buy motorbike for commercial transportation; I later decided this because I am supporting my family through coal burning and coal burning is seasonal; doing raining season we can't burn coal; that makes it difficult to provide my household needs and even paid my children's school fees. initially I planned to paid my children school fees but I later decided to buy this motors bike to be able to continuously paid my children school fees an feed my household.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly do well by supporting everyone in the community with no discrimination.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
My most recent transfer was used to buy motorbike for commercial transportation.
3rd 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?
When Givedirect came in this town, I was riding some one else motorcycle.
And when the first money came, I told my spouse that, I needed my own motorcycle since we are getting support from Givedirect.
Because of the plan,we been keeping more than half of the money each time, we received transfer
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
We are very excited and greatful to God for the level of commitment we received from Givedirect, because I couldn't believe that they were only doing the payment one time, but they continue to the end as they promised
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
We are keeping the money to purchase motorcycle that will be a good help to us when our transfer payment and
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 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?
My goal is to buy a motorcycle and run it as a business, since I graduated from high school, I have not been able to go to college to aquire higher education because of lack of money, I have three children now and I need to keep supporting them in school. I believe that if I do the business, it will generate more money to support my family, motorcycle business is one of the leading business in our town right now.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly does well by being fair in their processes, I have not seen such organization giving help like this unconditionally, they also send the transfers through our mobile accounts which reduces cheating to me. I have not seen anything wrong with GiveDirectly program, all is well with me.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I haven't withdraw my second transfer because I want it to add to the remaining transfers so that I can buy the motorcycle that I want to run as business. I know when I start the business, I will achieve so many things that I want in life.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($272 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
We were very much excited about the opportunity to have received such an amount of money from Givedirect
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
We were burning coal and cassava farming in the community we lived over a period of time.
But when Givedirect came,we have revised our ways of living and things are improving gradually
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
We are planning to do something great and so we are adding it up to reach to what we intend to do with it.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
If I'm successfully enrolled in to Give Directly's cash transfer program, I plan to do business with the money that I will receive.
I plan to do business because, I feel it will enable me send my children to school also help to sustain my family. If all goes well, from this same business I will be able to start up by building my house, a plan that I have had for a long time now, though I haven't been able to achieve it due to the lack of money.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In the last six months, what has brought me joy is the peaceful coexistence that continue to exist between my spouse and myself amidst the many challenges.
Even though times are hard, but we are happily living in this house with our kids, so this brings me joy or happiness as the head of this household, always trusting that things will be fine with us some days.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I'm currently facing several challenges but mostly the lack of money and food.
Since my wife and I started having children, things haven't been easy for us especially getting food for the family and also trying to send our kids to school.
The only source of income for this family is the making of cassava patch, where we plant cassava and when it is ready for harvest,we do that and later try to make fufu out of the cassava and then we take it to the nearby market in Sass town where we have it sold to sustain our family.
We sometimes try to burn chal coal but even the money earned from the coal sales can't be sufficient to Sustain us fully, it only helps us sometimes in buying few food and food items for our home.
