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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?
Yes, my new goal is to improve my house's roof from thartch to zinc. I have been living in this thartch house for about eight years now. The roof is so deplorable that when it rain my family and I can really suffer a lot because of the leakage. I make farm and cut palms to sustain my family and I. But things had not been easy to provide for my home. To even think of improving my house roof was never an option before, due to no money. This my last transfer has brought so much happiness to me and my family.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly has improved my life completely. I'm very happy and grateful to GD. Giving money to me directly is something very well that GD has done and I am grateful for this opportunity. Because I did not had the means of improving my house roof. However, I have not observe anything unwell about GD.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Improving my house roof has been my long wish due to the leakage from the thartch roof that my family and I constantly endure. So, I have spent my last transfer on three bundles of zinc to improve my house roof to zinc. I have been in this house with my family for the past eight years. There have been no money to change the thartch roof to zinc. This transfer has set my wish right of improving my house roof where my family and I can comfortably live.I also bought food,clothes and started a new business with my last transfer.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($262 USD)
access_time 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was working on my farm when my phone ring.I decided to check my phone and I saw a message from give-directly that my first transfer has come.I was overwhelmed with joy and stopped what I was doing.I ran home to share the good news with my family
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
My biggest difference was I never had the opportunity to support my family,because of low income.With the help of give-directly I am able to send my children to school,and can afford food for my family.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spend my recent transfer on buying zinc,agriculture and children school fees.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I'm a mother of four (4) living children, my children have not been able to seek better education since they were born because of the lack of money. Getting this transfer will be a transformation for my family, we will send our children to school, upgrade our house condition, as well as send establish a farm for ourselves to help sustain us.
What is the happiest part of your day?
GiveDirectly transfer will be my joyous moment I have ever experience this year, I have never be able to live with in my means, I being living below my means, noting like happiness I have experience.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
We are in extreme poverty, we don't have to eat, we don't afford the basic necessities of life. We bearly eat good food, we haven't experience good shelter, we don't know how it's even like. Our children have not experience going to school, all these are serious challenges we face on a daily basis.
