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4th Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 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?
I plan to build my house, I plan to pay my daughter school fees and I also plan to do agriculture work on my farm.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly gave me money to send my daughter to school, building my own house and buying fertilizer for my farm. I am so happy to give directly for the money.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought zinc to start the building process, I have paid my daughter school fees and I also bought food for the house.
3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($277 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?
I plan to build my house, I plan to pay my children school fees and I also plan to buy food.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In the past years, l used to work very hard in the garden before my children and I can survive. After receiving this transfer from give directly, I was able to start building my house and paying my children school fees. The hard work has reduced.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought zinc to start building my house, I have paid my children school fees and I also bought food for the house.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
42500 LRD ($286 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?
I want to build my own house because the house that I am currently staying in belongs to my extended family and I want my children to have a house to call their own. I also want to own a good business that will keep raising money to support my daughter in school until she can graduate and have a better job in the future; I know when that happens, it will be a great help for me when I am old. These are my main goals that I want to achieve.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion GiveDirectly is doing well by helping us unconditionally without any third party being involved, they are also kind in talking to us anytime we are being interview, they are straight in their processes and ready to slove our problems at anytime. I haven't seen anything that GiveDirectly is not doing well for now, all I have seen them doing are good.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used my second transfer to buy some building materials to start my house project because it has been my dream for a long time to own a house, I also used some of the transfer to pay my daughter school fees so that she can be an educated person, I bought food also for my family and the remaining amount is in savings for future purpose.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
40375 LRD ($282 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 very happy when I receive my first transfer. My husband and I couldn't afford to build a house but with the help of Givedirectly we now have money to build a house for our family.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Since we started receiving transfer from Givedirectly our lives have improved. We have been making farm to survive, and I couldn't afford to pay my daughter school fees and build a house for our family. I can now start a little business also to help us while build our house.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
We will be able to buy food and some building materials to build a house for our family.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
"What I do plan to do with my cash transfer are, to invest into charcoal/fire coal business, and to build my own house, the reason is, there is no good job to do right now, I and my husband's hustles go mainly behind food and children's school fees, coal business has a lot of profits, with this business I will be able to assist my husband in supporting the home, and as the profit grows I can subsequently start my building project."
What is the happiest part of your day?
"What brought me happiness in the last six months is, one of my daughters got promoted to the tenth grade, but needed school fees for enrollment which I never had, but when I communicated that to two of the elder ones, they told me not to worry myself, they'll take care of it, this brought me instant relief, and I was so overwhelmed with excitement."
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
"The challenges I'm currently faced with now are: firstly, getting money to start up my fire coal business, secondly, building my house, and lastly, sending my children to school, things had been so difficult for my husband and I, we only survive on the little farm we have, and sometimes the burning of coal, the cash we generate from these activities aren't enough to meet up with all of our demands. The house that we're currently in is a family house, so, getting whatever cash from GiveDirectly will mean a lot to us."
