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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1250 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Have an improved health condition so as to be able to work hard and push on with good life
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
The unconditional grant that provided me with the choices of using my money in the hospital.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my transfer on meeting my medical bills
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($634 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was in the garden harvesting beans and my neighbor came asking if I'd checked my message. I ran to house and found it been sent.
I felt very happy.
I thought about God's grace since I was sick and now I could get some help and by a cow as well.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I feel very happy now and pray that God keeps GD safe to.
My family is fine.
I can now start buying coffee and sell it off which wasn't the case before.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought a Bull to keep my money and iron sheets to construct a kraal
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
This cash transfer will bring a big change in lives. Here I plan to purchase a dairy cow which will provide us milk for both domestic use and also selling to raise money for acquiring other basic needs in the home hence living good life.
I also opt to buy a plot of land worth USD 1052 for cultivation which enable my family to get food in plenty so that we can reduce on life of sturving that we go through now. The balance of USD 263 will cater for medical bills and also buying food as we do cultivate to harvest more food in the family.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I felt very happy when my daughter who works in Kenya as a maid sent me USD 5 which helped us buy food and sugar that took us through a full week. Indeed, I was happy with my daughter's efforts.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I suffer the problem 0f water which enters my house when it rains. It affects the whole house, we even lack where to sleep when this happens. I find hardships to meet medical bills when I and my people fall sick hence living in pain simply because we are encounting a lot of poverty.
