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?
Yes, I have a new goal for this current transfer. The first money I paid my children school fees and bought food. But now, I'm going to use this money to pay for planks and mode bricks for my new two bedroom house.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly has done more than good things for us. God will bless GiveDirectly. My children are freely in school, my financial burdens have reduced from GiveDirectly money.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have not used the money yet but I'm planning on buying planks, pay contractors to mode bricks and to buy other building materials to start up my house.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($278 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?
Before I started receiving the cash transfer, I have been sleeping on the floor. With the intervention of Give Directly, I have been empowered to renovate my room, bought a mattress and I'm currently buying my house materials to start my house project.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give Directly is doing well to help us with the cash transfer and I'm grateful to them for changing our lives and making my dream of building a house come true.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used my cash transfer to buy a mattress, food and the balance was spent on my children tuition.
Enrolled
access_time almost 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Upon receiving this cash, my plan is to send my children to school.
Why because, my first relationship I had, we were together for more than twenty eight years, we bear ten children, five died and five are alive he left all the children with me and we parted. I'm getting older, I feel that when I send my children to school, they will take good care of me in return.
The house I'm in presently is not for me, the second relationship I had, we were together and his wife came and cause case on me that I have taken her husband and she fail to know that, the man and myself struggle to put things together, she came and disgrace me, I had nowhere to go until a lady give me her husband to be in until things get better.
My family took my other children inorder to help me reduced the burden that I'm faced with.
Presently, since my husband left me, I'm the only one catering to the children, I have to do hard labor practice and farm work in order to send money to the people that are looking after my children.
From this, I decided that when I get this money, I wi used portion of it to send my children to school, used portion of it to put my own house and used the balance to do a business that will set a good foundation for my children in my absent.
What is the happiest part of your day?
When I woke up in the morning, and see my children in a healthy mood, also make me happy.
And what make me happy also, some family members took my daughter to help reduced the burden from me by sending her to school until she graduates also makes me happy.
Because I don't have that financial strength inorder to maintain them, I feel shame of my children going out, but what to do.
And lastly, the present of Givedirectly at my door step assuring me of receiving cash that will help me reduced my poverty, that also brought joy to me greatly.
It is something, that we not seen in this village.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My life are full of challenges, I'm the lone lady catering to my five children, and my wish is to make them educated because of no money that is also a challenge for me.
And the house that I'm in, you know what it means, a woman who she and her husband was living happily and just decided that he don't want me again and decided leaving the five children with me without any concrete reason. To even get food to eat, is a constraints for me and the children.
