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?
No new plan my previous plan still stand to build my house because im living in a family house and to send my children to school.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly is diong extremely well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Im planning to buy motorcycle and 2bundles of zince and 2cartoons of nails and others assorted building materials.
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access_time almost 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Our plans for this money is to build ourself a house and send our kids to school,
Currently we do not have our own house. Our family sleep in a single room. For the past years, even though we have tried to built our place, but no money. This season we didn't get good products from the farm. The animals disturbing the rice in TN that we didn't realized more rice. It's only hand to mouth.
Our need for house is due to the fact that we're having children and the place is becoming small for us. We have our 5 years old son in town while one is here with us, and all of us can't be in this small place. It's embarrassing for us and our children.
When we get our own house it will be a great thing for us because we will now boast of having property of our own which can benefit our children tomorrow.
The second thing is sending our children to school. Our children in town are not going to school. We don't have the money to send them to school. The farm we depended on to have done that didn't produce to our expectations. The crops were damaged by the animals. Sending our children to school is a future investment that could benefit they and ourselves.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The only news that get us happy is when we hear the news about getting money from Give Directly. We have been hearing about their help in different towns around us, and we been praying that one day they reach us. Today is our most happy day over the past six months. We know that Give Directly help will solve our problems facing us.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Our challenges now is to have money to send our son to school. One of our children has turned five years, and he's not going to school. I don't have money to send him to school. The farm can no more help in getting us in sending our son to school due to the low production.
Second thing is the problem with having a house. We are living in a single room in someone else's house, and as the family increase the place become small for us. Also, it's embarrassing living in a single room where to have family members coming to you and they have nowhere to sleep.
The last thing is not having money for food to feed the family sufficiently. As we have a poor farming season this year, we have to get money to purchase food for the family. Unfortunately we don't have the money to get the amount of food due to the lack of money.
