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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1220 USD)
access_time 3 months ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
In the coming years I hope to sell off the cows and buy land so I can buy any available land
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GD is different because it always delivers what has been promised and to everyone
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Has bought livestock
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($613 USD)
access_time 5 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I felt so good and happy at the same time.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Now I feel I have some assets that can easily be sold in case I have any emergency at home
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought 2 cows. For long I have admiring people grazing their cows
Enrolled
access_time 10 months ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
Am planning on purchasing land in a safer place in the areas of quoota. Its relatively flat and not affected by landslides. We shall purchase land worth $1,571 so that my family can be safe there. Will transfer the materials including ironsheets to the new area to do construction of atleast a two bedroom house.
Also we plan on using the remaining balance to start up a retail business of purchasing bananas "matooke" and selling off to make some profits.
What is the happiest part of your day?
We as Christians are always feeling happy and blessed that we manage to wake up when we are still breathing an alive. However much nothing exciting has happened in the last 6months but us being alive and healthy is really amazing.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The challenges that we are having mostly include not having an assurance of where the next meal will come from. We are peasants and relay on subsistence farming and casual labour. In cases where it's a dry season or the food is not ready in the garden, we hardly get enough food for the day, thus sometimes sleeping hungry.
Also, the area that we are sleeping in is risky and surrounded by stones where some roll from uphill. We there fore sleep in fear and worries, thinking anytime rolling stones may cover my home. Recently, in May 2023, a rolling stone came from a few metres up and destroyed the kitchen that i was constructing. This has gotten me worried as anytime they may hit my house, and yet i do not have anywhere else to go to.
