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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 USD)
access_time almost 2 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
No I did not set new goal.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Givedirectly did good for we/ us the poor people, GD has not done anything bad.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
My fourth cash transfer is in saving.
3rd 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?
No new goal set, my focus is to complete my previous goal which is the modern zinc roof house in Konwroken this me to stop paying rent for my children.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly has done nothing bad, GD has positive in my life that I never thought of.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
My money is in saving
2nd 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?
There's no new goal, am very focus on my old.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly is the first ever humanitarian organization that has really come to improve our community living standard. In short GD has nothing bad.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
As professional carpenter the construction of my new zinc roof house is ongoing in our big Town where my children are schooling, the plastering of my zinc roof house in Wlegboken is also ongoing.
I bought my new carpenter tools and one solar panel for light, the balance is in saving.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($264 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 sweeping my yard when my message came on my phone. I paused the sweeping and picked the phone to see the message and I found out that Give directly sent the money they promised us. I was so excited, my wife wasn't home that day so I ran on the farm to share the good news with her. My wife's happiness was more than mine and that alone made me so fulfilled. I love GiveDirectly so much. They blessed me and brought peace to my home.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I am a carpenter and farmer; but all the work I have been doing couldn't make me raise money to renovate my existing house neither to build a new house. Since Givedirectly blessed me with this money, I can now renovate my house and build new one. I no longer have leaking roof over my head. This alone puts smile on my face everyday. My live has changed through the help of Givedirectly and I am grateful.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought two bundles of zinc to renovate my existing house. I also bought good sum of dirt bricks for the new house I intent to build along with one bundle of zinc and few pieces of planks.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
As a subsistence farmer for many years without any better changes in life ,I have planned to invest in cash crop plantation . Coacoa farming is now known in our environment to be the most successful kind of farming with a multiple good impact on many families who invested in some years ago as compared to we who have focused rice farming. With the availability of land for my family and I , I will invest in several headtares with coacoa farming if I received the unconditional cash transfer from GiveDirectly.
What is the happiest part of your day?
When my trap catch animals, I am a happy man for the week . It because that is is one one of accumulating finance for my family from the sale of the animals being caught by my traps .
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I am an unemployed father who shares a three bedrooms house with my bigger son and his wife . The maintenance of my house that was built several years ago has been my challenge among other challenges. It is not an easy thing to depend on farming as a source of accumulating finance. As a result of my being unemployed coupled with the limited resources from my subsistence farming, I have been living in this delapetated structure with my family; a situation that diminishes my personality as a man because we only make farms to eat and such products can not even serve us for up to half a year .
