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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1252 USD)
access_time 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
With GD support, he has managed to buy onion seeds and bull, he hopes to harvest big from these investments and buy more land and relocate there
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Appreciates GD for supporting him and his family,
nothing to say about betterment
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Bought land and a bull for rearing
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($648 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I felt happy. I even had to wake up and inform my family members in the house
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
There is increasing live each day in my family unlike those days when I could not afford the family basic needs
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I quickly had to pay for a plot in the nearby trading centre because this was my dream always
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
Receiving this money means that Give Directly has really thought about my well being since I am unable to afford some needs. I am living in my compound I am therefore planning on buying a piece of land in Bududa town council at $815 buy construction materials at $543, I shall also use $136 to pay workers for labour in constructionof the house. I shall use 136$ to pay medical expenses for my child . I also plan on starting up an onion business at $272 because the trading center is near thus will be able to sell them without incurring transport costs
What is the happiest part of your day?
I planted onions in August 2022, I am lucky because unlike other farmers my onions didn't dry. I now have hope that I shall harvest them in February. This has always made me smile because I plan on selling the harvested onions St $109 and use the money to buy a calf
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My wife gave birth to a premature baby at 7 months he was incubated for 3 weeks but due to lack of money we brought him back home and bought cotton to maintain his temperature. At 10 months he started becoming sickly, the doctors said he was suffering from a stomach disease which I failed to understand. I am still worried that even though he is now one year and 5 months he cries oftenly, doesn't walk and has been having diarrhoea since January 10th which has so hard for me as I am always worried about him
