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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1278 USD)
access_time 10 months ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I hope to be a stable person with a stable family and the fact that I have invested, and I believe my children's education is handled. House is constructed. Thanks to give directly
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I appreciate give directly for their help, and I kindly ask continue with the same process. It has been the best
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Spent Most of my transfer on building a house
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($638 USD)
access_time 11 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was in the garden, I felt so happy because I had received the cash that I had waited for so long . We were tought on how to make decisions in the baraza, so when money came my first thought was to buy livestock, buying ironsheets and paying school fees for the children
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
There's a difference, in my life and my family as well...we now have two bulls which we didn't have before I got cash from give directly.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent most of it on livestock
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access_time over 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
I am planning on constructing a house in bulambuli worth 25 iron sheets since i have a family. Each iron sheet costs $10 and am planning on spending about $250 on the iron sheets. This land that I want to construct in i bouught it at $1428 in 2021. I also want to take my children nabuzale rosemary and jessy mutawo to school as I am always struggling with their school fees at bumwalye primary school
What is the happiest part of your day?
Ripening of my coffee beans as I can sell and get some money to eat. I sell 5kilograms of coffee which are non processed at $ 2. Also my bananas "matooke" and yellow bananas "bogoya" when they keep maturing and I sell them, I get very happy. I sell one mature green banana at $6 and tye yellow bananas at $ 3
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My biggest challenge is poverty as I lack enough food to eat and even money to get medication. Also water is always comes from the ground to enter my house especially when it is raining.
My garden was also destroyed found in nahatore village in bulucheke subcounty in 2021.
