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Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
329680 RWF ($295 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 so happy when I heard the news from my neighbor , I immediately checked my account then I found that I received money . I was overjoyed and I thought that my life was going to change in a positive way.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Life is getting so much better we renovated our house , we bought a pig and I bought food for my family. We are now sleeping in a good house.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Most of the money was spent on renovating our house because when there was rain, the roof was so damaged that we didn't have a corner to stand on we had to go to our neighbors.
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
As we have a big family, we will keep renovating our house to be able to accommodate every child comfortably using $500. We have livestocks but we hope to add more. We will buy a cow of $250 to be able to get fertiliser. The remaining amount will be used to buy health insurance of $24
What is the happiest part of your day?
We have been healthy for the past few months. We are glad that we finished last year well with our family members. The main thing which makes us happy is that all our children managed to study with our support. Moreover, when we get crops to use in our lands, we are happy.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest challenge we have is that we do not have enough money to do business as we want. We started a small business of selling traditional beverages like banana beer and sorghum beverage. We used a capital of $50. We are now having a big family of 6 children which means that we have to improve on the business to be able to feed them but we don't have enough funds.
