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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 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 plan is to engage in a motorcycle business that will help me to grow into a commercial motorcycle business
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I am happy that Givedirect came in our town and today I am owning two motorcycles on my own that makes me to be able stand on my own.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought two motorcycles for commercial purpose with the money
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($287 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I plan to buy motor bike to do a business.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly really help me, through this transfer. Running a business now, is a blessing. My life has improved.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought the motor bike to start a business.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($299 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I plan to pay back the money to the motor bike owner that I took the bike from for work and pay.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly did well for me in helping me to start a new business that is now helping my family to survive.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I paid the motor bike owner and now, I am the owner for the motor bike.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($273 USD)
access_time 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
My name is Boakai G Sesay from Saykay town Bomi County Liberia. When I received transfer massage from Givedrectly I was very glad and started dancing because, it is my first time to receive huge amount of money in my life.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The money receive from Givedrectly had helped me get my own motor bike. My mother in law has been sick for the past four months and there was no money for treatment. My wife is about to start business to help me with other household problems. I am a farmer and depends on my crops for survive life has been difficult for me and my family. I am planning to build my own house upon receiving my balance transfer from Givedrectly. I am so excited
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I withdraw twenty five thousand Liberian dollars to pay for second handled motor bike and send eight thousand Liberian dollars to my mother in law for her treatment and kept the balance for my wife to start business.
Enrolled
access_time over 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
When be bless to receive the transfer, I will add my woman business up so that she can be able to make good profit. If some of the money remain, I will save it for the future.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What really makes me feel happy in the last six months is when my uncle turned over the house I'm living right now to my mother and the land. Because my mother couldn't move there, she allowed me to move there.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
One of the major challenges facing me and my woman now is food. Because to get money to buy food is not easy especially when you don't have any job to do.
