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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($278 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 am Mustapha Massaquoi from Plunkor town, Bomi county Liberia. I decided to build my own house and start attending vocational training institution since I started receiving cash transfer from Givedirectly.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion, Givedirectly treated everyone equally. I received all of my cash transfer from Givedirectly as promised and so much excited. Thanks to Givedirectly and those who contributed in helping me change my living condition.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Upon cashing out my last cash transfer, I bought planks, doors, two bundles of zinc and did payment of my school fees.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($279 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?
My goal is to build a house for myself, because I don't have any where to live since my house broke down.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly is doing everything well because they are fare or very transparent.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought zinc to build my house.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($299 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?
Yes, I had a plan to build my own house
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly can do everything good
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my most recent transfer on building materials
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($269 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 time, I was not able to afford money . But now, l am able to solve some of my problems.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference is, I was struggling in the bush to burn coal and make farm. But after receiving this transfer, my hard work in the bush has reduced and I am planning to build my house.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought zinc with the money because, I am planning to build my own house, paid my children school fees and saved some of the money.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
If we are successful to receive the cash, we continue our education. Like for me, I am in 11th grade and my spouse is in 9th grade. So we will complete high school and extend further if we have resources to do so.
Also if the money GD will give us will be enough, we will also complete our house renovation with some. And use the balance to start our business ( table Market) here in this same town. We want to do business because when doing business, we will be able to save some of the cash for future family use.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Yes,like in February, we were very because my brother who lives in Monrovia brought us one bag of 25 kg rice. On that day and that month my spouse and I were happy because we had food to eat.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The main challenge we got here as family is how to raise money and go back to school. Because now, noon of our parents helping us with financial help. In fact they don't even have to do so.
And the cassava farm we ourselves making to sell and be able to earn money for school; does not have good price these days. Because of that, we can even processed the cassava to fufu, but still the fufu don't make money because there are lot of people selling fufu too. So to answer your question, our major challenge here is how to raise money.
