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?
I previously planned to build a house for myself. The house I'm currently residing in is a family house which I can leave anytime. So I want to have my own house for my children.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
All of the work GiveDirectly has done are all good for me. I was not expecting to get this amount of money and I received it. I most commend GiveDirectly for putting smiles on our faces
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have not spent my money yet but I'm planning to buy additional cements, metal sheets, and other assorted building materials for my new house. I will also saved some of the money to use as workmanship for the project.
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What does receiving this money mean to you?
Upon receiving this fund, I want to build a house and do a business with it inorder to improve my life and take the children to good school.
My husband and myself were living together happily when I got pregnant, unexpectedly, he denied the pregnancy and went back to his home in Grand Cape Mount County.
I'm here with the children doing everything by myself, I have to do casual labor on people farm just to sustain me and my children.
For this, upon receiving this cash, I will used some of the money to build a house by buying zinc and paying men to cut sticks and the balance I will used it to invest in business to sustain me and my children.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Waking up to the see the new day and at the end, God can give me and my children daily meal makes me happy, because He is our guardian and provider.
Lastly, the present of Givedirectly to my house assuring me of giving cash to reduce my poverty in living a better life also make me happy the most.
Cause, since I came up in life, I have not seen such an opportunity coming into my life that make me to feel that God is not asleep for the less fortunate.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I have experienced more hardships in my life. As a single handed person, maintaining three children, no father that will help me find food and good medication for them all make life unbearable for me.
At my age, no one want to give me money or help me without having an affairs (sex) with me and I'm a newly baby mother, I was pregnant when my husband disowned the pregnancy created the worst hardship in life by doing casual labor just to sustain my children and giving them good medical attention.
