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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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over 2 years ago
Pourline
received a $232 initial payment.
"I here in Bakor when I received the first money. I was so happy and I am still happy. I was pregnant and unable to do anything to help my husband pay our children school fees. My husband was really happy when I told him that GiveDirectly has sent us money. My husband is one of the people who never believed GiveDirectly. "What kind of people who do not drink even water from people" he always said. So when I gave him the phone to withdraw the money he was happy more than me. We agreed to pay for the children education first"."
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over 2 years ago
Patrick
received a $232 initial payment.
""I am an administrator at the school. I did not want my childrsn thrown out of school because of fees. Therefore, I used portion of the money to clear off my children's arrear in rhe school. I used the remaining money to pay my workers who are presently planting my two hectares of land with cocoa"."
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over 2 years ago
Lovetee
received a $232 initial payment.
"This transfer has enabled me to begin the process of building my own house."
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over 2 years ago
Victor
received a $232 initial payment.
""I was happy when I received my first transfer. I am unable to hunt as other men do, neither am I able to lock (set) trap in the bush. However, I make subsistence farming where which is the only source of income for me and my family. We grow upland rice
I have just arrive from the village because I received information from my wife that people were jubilating in town because of GiveDirectly money. It was around 11:00am when I reached in town. I wasted no time but went in a picked up my phone. I switcjed it on and indeed, 35625LD was transferred from GiveDirectly. Before the transfer, I had doubts about the truthfulness of this program. Now those doubts are cleared. I bless God for GiveDirectly.
The first that came to my mind was to send my daughter's school fees in Monrovia, secondly, to plaster my house. My daughter did not go to school last year because there was no money. This year, GiveDirectly free me, now my wife and I are overly happy"."
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over 2 years ago
Mamie
received a $232 initial payment.
"Before I got enrolled on this program my children were out of school however, with the help of GD transfer I was able to enroll them in school without getting indebted to anyone."
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over 2 years ago
Marie
received a $232 initial payment.
"I was on my farm when Give Directly sent my transfer but I was not in the know because my husband left home with the phone. While harvesting my rice that day I was surprised to see him running to have me informed about the transfer. However, I felt happy when he broke the news because I needed money to pay my children's fees at school."
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over 2 years ago
Philip
received a $232 initial payment.
"Before I started receiving my transfer I have been striving to enroll my children in school. This situation has been challenging for the past years and have to sell my crops to pay their fees. However, through the intervention of Give Directly's transfer, I was able to enroll them without borrowing money from anyone."
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over 2 years ago
Ramino
received a $232 initial payment.
"I was in my village early morning when I here people saying that givedirectly has send them money, I didn't believe it, I later when for my phone on charge and it to my brother to check in my account if I have received mine. Luckily for me I saw a huge amount of money in my account. I was so much happy that day, I was happy because I haven't received such money in my whole life for free without paying back. Well my children being out of school for a very long time now, so when I received that money I firstly thought of putting my children back to school."
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over 2 years ago
Joannah
received a $232 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life now is, I am now trying to change my leaking roof. My family are now living a better life, my children are all health and in school now, I wasn't having money to change my leaking roof, but now I have money to change everything."
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over 2 years ago
Neome
received a $232 initial payment.
"I was in my village that morning when I here people saying that givedirectly has send them money, I quickly called my little brother to check in my account if I have received mine, luckily for me I saw a huge amount of money in my account. I was very much happy, and even dance that whole day. I was happy because the house I am living in right now is finished old, it's has leakage all over the roof. That's why when I received my money I thought of my leaking roof to change it."
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