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Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
329680 RWF ($302 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 working in the fields when I received the transfer SMS. I immediately dropped everything I was doing and rushed home to my husband to share the news with him. I withdrew the money and was able to pay the 102,000 rwf debt that I owed SACCO. My family and I had a feeling of relief because we did not really know how we would be able to pay off that loan. I was also able to buy livestock. I thank GD for thinking about me and my family.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I was living in poverty and cultivating some land I had bought with a bank loan. I did not know how I'd be able to pay the loan. Upon receiving my first transfer, I paid the bank loan and have enough money to take care of my family for now and think about the projects that I want to do.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I paid off the bank loan that I had and bought a pig with most of my transfer. The loan had been been bothering me for some time now and I chose to buy a pig because I am confident it will reproduce in no time and it will be a reliable source of income.
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access_time over 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
The first installment we want to renovate and clean our house , and we also plan to buy a land for $600 , we plan that we will negotiate and pay $200 first and pay the rest in installment , we also plan to buy materials for our house.
The second installment we plan to pay part of the land for $250 and buy livestocks , we want to buy 2 goats for $100 and a pig for $80 and this can generate some money in the future which we can use to pay the balance from the land we plan to buy.
Receiving thi money means coming out of extreme poverty and being able to have a good standard of living, and this will help us provide a good education for our children and have a medical insurance therefore our lives will change for the better.
What is the happiest part of your day?
We have been able to get what to eat and we have been able to work for money and paid for school fees for our children and now they are all studying, even though we have not yet paid the full amount but only half of it but atleast we are happy that they are all studying and we will continue to work hard to raise the rest of the school fees.
We have also recently received modern stoves and now our children don't have to wait for long after school to get food to eat and the woods we use have reduced and the smoke has reduced as well , now we no longer suffer from cough or have eye issues because of the smoke.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The first challenge we are facing is not having enough land to cultivate, we have to rent a land to be able to produce what to eat . And another challenge is not having a capital to operate a business, my husband Celestin wants to open a shop in our village but we currently don't have any facilities to start that business, because the little money we get we use it renting and paying for school fees for our children. We have to work for others to be able to raise enough money to pay for books , school uniform and other needs for our children.
