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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What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spend my recent transfer on buying zinc and other materials for my house.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give-directly do well by giving me money to start building my house.
Give-directly could do better by giving all of the poorest villages money also.They at times passed by other towns that are also in need of money and give other towns.
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I hope to accomplish making my dream to come through,by building my house and make a very big business that I Will always remember give-directly organization.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
35625 LRD
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
My biggest difference is that before I was finding it difficult to send my children to school, but now I am able to send my children to school.
Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was really sufferings in my village.To even paid my children school fees was not easy,least to talk about eating.I have two children and to paid their school fees was not easy for me.The moment that I heard that give-directly came to give money i felt very happy.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spend my recent transfer on buying zinc and I pay my children school fees.
Enrolled
access_time over 2 years ago
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I am a widow and I alone cannot make a farm big enough to raise more money for the upkeep of the family as well as help my sister with the children fees in monrovia.
I only sell gari and peanut to sustain myself now. Therefore I can say my biggest challenge now is the means to get money and solve those problems.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I suffered user stomach over the past one year and it kept me down for long until recently I got treated and recover.
Futhermore, one of daughters got missing for over three months, three weeks ago we were able to find her. Those where the things that brought joy in my life over the past six months.
What does receiving this money mean to you?
When I get the cash transfer from GiveDirectly, I will send some money to my sister in Monrovia who takes care of my children and sends them to school.
I will also use the balance to purchase zinc and other building material to build a three room house.
The house I live now belongs to my brother and moreover, the one room I occupy in it cannot accommodate my children and I whenever they come for vacation.
