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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1206 USD)
access_time 1 month ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I hope to complete the construction of my house this year ,and next year will be for expanding my business
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly did well its processes of offering help directly. I recommend the same process in the next village.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Spent most of it on buying land and construction materials
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($613 USD)
access_time 3 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I felt so happy
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I invested in the garden. I am too expectant that I will have too much of the yields this coming season
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought some construction materials and some Agricultural inputs
Enrolled
access_time 8 months ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
My plan is to rent land for digging for more produce for a plot of land at $1,074.44 and cow for milk, hoping it will grow and give birth to more cows which I will sell get money to help us other a family.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I and my family have been fine, strong and in good health that we have not spent money in hospital because we are sick and I was able to plant some crops like maize, which I harvested and got one bag in August this year which we are feeding on as a family.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The challenge I am facing is I don't have enough money to enable me participate in large scale farming because I need to buy seeds, and pay off laborers to dig.
And from the farming is where I am also able to get food for my family yet I don't have what it takes for start off with the farming.
