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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($244 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
The recipient doesn't have any new goals, they are still in the process of achieving their first goals.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Giverdirectly is doing a great job in the entire rivergee county, it's because of them we are able to build a decent house and pay our Childers schools fees. I don't know anything wrong that giverdirectly is doing in this village.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought ten bags of cement, and used the balance money to pay my two children schools fees.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
37500 LRD ($247 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?
I don't have a new goal because my first goal which was to build my new house house has not been archived.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion GiveDirectly is doing well in every direction. They've madev it possible for me to be to construct a house on my own. More to that, they have helped me to pay my children tuition for this academic year.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought additional two bundles of zinc and nails for the construction of my new house.
Enrolled
access_time 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
If I'm successful to receive this cash transfer from GiveDirectly, I will use some of the money to build a house on the land I bought and use the balance to support my children in school which will bring me so much.
The house I live in is owned by my cousin Sam Slobert and we live happily together as a family but I'm a grown woman, I have my own family which I'm taking care of, I'm not happy living in the family house all the time, I need to have my own house where my family and I will stay.
My husband and I make rice farms to sustain the family. The proceeds we get from the farm is used for our consumption.
Am also engaged in the charcoal business for the past three years now, the money I earn from the charcoal last year, I used to buy land that cost fifteen thousand Liberian Dollars (15,000) LD.
since then I have not been able to raise money to build a house.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In the last six months, what has brought me joy is when the house I was in broke down in September 2021 and my cousin Sam Slobert give me a room in his house to stayed, it brought me so much happiness because I was homeless and I had no where to go but he helped me with place for my family and I to stay.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest hardship I'm facing now is money.
Even though my husband and I make rice farms to sustain the family, The proceeds we get from the farm is used for our consumption.
Am also engaged in the charcoal business for the past three years now, the money I earn from the charcoal last year I used to buy land that cost fifteen thousand Liberian Dollars (15,000) LD.
since then I have not been able to raise money to build a house.
The house I live in is owned by my cousin Sam Slobert, we live happily together as a family but I'm a grown woman, I have my own family which I'm taking care of and I need my own house where my family and I will stay.
