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Amos
landscapeCountry:
liberia
workOccupation:
Subsistence farming
faceAge:
49
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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?
The completion of my house is in progress and that's what on my mind for now.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give Directly does everything well, they have lifted my life from the dust and I'm so much grateful to God for them. Just that they don't eat, drink, nor hold anything from us as an appreciation, but they are incredibly good people.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
My recent transfer was spent on additional building materials like, planks, nails and sticks. The remaining portion was spent on my children balance fees and food for my household.
 
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($285 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 goals that I had before receiving this transfer were sending my children to school and building a new house. So, when I receive the first phase of my transfer, I bought zinc and settled some family issues. The second transfer I used portion it to pay for my children's education and the other portion is being saved. I have used portion of the third transfer to buy building materials. I was having a very big and decent house before, but it got burned and life became very much difficult and unbearable for me and my family. The project of my house is on already. I am waiting for the last transfer for completion of my house. I just want to say thank you to the Givedirectly family for being able to help me and my family to achieve my dreams.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
If there is anything that is not done well by GiveDirectly I don't really think I have any idea of it. I have not seen it at all. I believe that GiveDirectly does very much well by reaching out to every deserving households in various communities in our town during the enrolment process and determining their eligibility. This makes me believe that GiveDirectly was very much fair in the process.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have the believe that with this money from Givedirectly, I can achieve my goals greatly. And these plans were to build a and send my kids to school but I didn't have any money to achieve any of these plans. So, when I receive the first phase of my transfer, I decided to buy zinc and settled some family issues. The second transfer I used portion it to pay for my children's education for a better future while the other portion is being saved. I have used portion of the third transfer also to buy building materials because I do not have a house of my own. The project of my house is on already. I am waiting for the last transfer for completion of my house. I just want to say thank you to the Givedirectly family for being able to help me and my family to achieve my dreams
 
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 have had a new goals that I could not implement due to financial constraints before receiving this transfer. I had a house before but it got burned and now I am living in a house that is not conducive for me and my family. since the burning of my house my life had not been quite good for me and my family. I also had a plan of building a house but I could not meet up with my plans because of poverty. I have cut sticks more than two to three times but they all got spoiled due to no funds. The coming of GiveDirectly cash transfer has made me to capture the plans of archiving my goals. I have bought some building materials to build a new house for my family and I to stay in the future.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I wish have seen the wrong doings of GiveDirectly but unfortunately for me, I have not been able to see any of such. In my own thinking, I believe that GiveDirectly has done it's best to do best what it do. I have not heard or seen anything wrong about GiveDirectly whole program. I believed and learned that the purpose of the GiveDirectly organization is to help the less fortunate people and to levitate poverty around the world.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
A happy family is a dream of every man. My wife and I have been struggling with this situation of living in such a small house with our children. It has been so sad seeing my family squeezed together in one tight house and feeling uncomfortable during the rainy season because the house leaks a lot. I have been planning to build a better house than the previous one but due to lack of financial strength, I have not been able to bring my plans to reality. With this money from Givedirectly, have been able to buy building materials to accomplish the dream of my wife and I. I have been able to also pay for my children's education for the betterment of their future. Thanks to God Almighty for GiveDirectly.
 
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($273 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
"When I saw the alert from GiveDirectly, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep that night because I felt it was a joke.Not in my life time have I received or worked for such an amount. I am a farmer who work tirelessly for the whole year and can't even afford such an amount. With this money, I can now see my future and that of my children life changing for the better."
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
"Before receiving payment from GiveDirectly, my family and I had lived in a thatched house with leakage. When ever its rains the whole house and everything in it will get soaked and my children will be shivering with cold this have been my biggest problem for years and as a father and head of the home I have try many times to change the roof but I was always constrained to do so. With this transfer,I got the greatest relieved of my life, because I am now going to change the roof of the house to a better and comfortable one.I believed after getting all the transfers my family and I lives will change for the better."
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
"Most of my recent transfer was spend on building materials, such as zinc, nails and planks, because I am planning on changing the thatched roof to a zinc roof.The remaining money was spend on my children's school fees and uniforms. I also bought food and other household materials."
 
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
 
What does receiving this money mean to you?
This recipient said she planned to build her house and also do cook food business.
What is the happiest part of your day?
This recipient said in the last 6 months, what brought joy to her is that, her child was seriously sick but by God's grace he got well.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
This recipient said the challenges she is currently facing is that, she doesn't have money to buy food for her family and she doesn't feel comfortable in her house, because of the room. She also said the thatches over her house are rotten and she don't have money to buy zinc for her house.