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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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I felt very happy and blessed to be recipient. When I first received the message, while my neighbors were happily jubilating their own messages, I sat quietly and reflected on some of my though times just before I could receive the money. I was really stranded and thinking about how to raise money to pay my children school fees. I feel lucky to be part of this opportunity.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
There is a great changed in my life since I received this money. Getting this money alone to get my children in school was wonderful. I used to grieved at the time I have not received this money just for their school fees and materials. My children and I greatly appreciate GiveDirectly effort towards us.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my most recent transfer on my children school fees. I paid my five children school fees for the first semester and I bought their school materials including, bookbags, shoes, copybooks and other things.
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What does receiving this money mean to you?
Upon receiving this cash, my major plan are my children to get out of high school.
They are my future, when I'm old, they will help me tomorrow to live a better life and pay me back of what I have labor them.
In our family, it is hard for the children to graduate from High school, this also go down to me. So I want to break that yoke, this is why I'm trying my possible best to make my children to get out of high school.
I have five children, the eldest one is in the tenth grade, while the other one is in eighth grade, due to financial constraints, my other children did not complete the academic and they are in lower classes.
This is my plan, that when I received this cash, I will definitely invest it in their education.
What is the happiest part of your day?
When I get money to pay my children school fees, this can make me happy.
Because, they are my major priority.
And lastly, the present of Givedirectly to my house enrolling me and telling me that they will send me money, makes me happy also, because school will soon open, when I received this cash, I will be more than happy ever in life.
And this will be my testimony everywhere about the God of Givedirectly is a true God by coming to family aide.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My biggest hardship in my life is my children education. I have to do hard labor practice just to get money and send it to their mother to pay some of them school fees that are needed urgently.
The work my wife is doing the salary is not enough to to add up to their school fees. I'm just from doing casual labor by packing somebody coal stick on a daily hire level, what I'm I doing it for? My children.
