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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($244 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 don't having new goals before receiving this transfer, i was able to Purchase goods with my money and save some of my money for features use.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my own opinion , all is well with I and Give Directly due to the unconditional cash transfer to improve my life. I don't know anything that GD did that is not well all is okay.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I was able to Purchase more goods: liquid soap,chloride and others materials for business purpose and the balance money will be use for my land.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($246 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 don't having new goals before receiving this transfer; i plan to save my transfer so i can build my own house for i and my family's
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give Directly had open a new door for my life; I'm now a person that going to be a house owner for that reason it's more than good to me, looking at things i don't know anything that GD did that is not well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I'm planning to build my house with this transfer, for that reason I'm saving all of my transfer so i can purchase zinc and others house materials for the construction of my house, i been living in this town thinking how i will build house for my family, by the help of GD my dream come true.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
35625 LRD ($235 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was feeling too happy that I stopped the work I was doing. Receiving this money has brought so much joy to me and my family. The day that I received the message, I danced till people thought that I was going mad. I believe it was one of the happiest day of my life.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
First, I did not had money to buy different types of agriculture seeds to began a mini commercial farm and to pay for my children school fees. But receiving this recent transfer has change everything. I was able to buy different types of agriculture seeds to expand my farmland and save the balance money to pay for my children educations.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
My family and I survive on farming activities to provide food at home. I spent my most recent transfer on my farm. I bought corn seeds, sugar cane, pepper, etc, and the balance money I am saving it to pay my three children school fees. I live with my husband and three children. Farming is the only source of providing meal at home. I am really planning on to expand my farmland and plant different types of crops for commercial purposes. This is while I have spent my recent transfer on purchasing more agriculture seeds for planting.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I'm going to get engage into business when I receive transfer from Givedirectly. I have suffered a lot doing farm work and the pain of it is something I can't bear anymore. Receiving this money will relief me of such pain and open a new chapter of my life.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What made me happy over the past six months was living healthily to enter and celebrate the new year. There were many death news that I heard at the end of the year that scared me a lot. But I was happy that my family and I were preserved to enter the new year.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My challenge now is completing my unfinished building in Monrovia. I once decided to build in Monrovia having in mind that my children will some days day have to live there for schooling purpose. I started the process but it has since stopped at roof level because of lack of funds.
