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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1289 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
To renovate my new house fully
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GD staff doesn't take bribes and hospitality.
This is the best I've seen, GD works very well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought a cow so that I can have milk.
I'm renovating a new house so that I can relocate.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($635 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
received transfer message while in garden weeding maize, felt a lot of joy and started believing that GD had fulfilled what they had sensitised about transfer,thought first of buying construction materials for a a house in the town council where he had acquired a plot already
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
He has started believing that with these transfers, his family will have a place to live in which is free from landslides
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Buying construction materials like sand and bricks
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
Recieving this unconditional cash means a lot to me because out of it i will be able to buy a piece of land in a safe place for settlement with my family because where am staying right now is a disaster prone area and the piece of land will cost USD945 and the balance which is USD927 will be used to put up a shelter for my family in the safe place that I plan to buy.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In the last 6 months what brought me joy was when i harvested my cabbage, sold and earned USD200, i was able to buy poles at USD100 to construct a house as an extension of my house that am staying in right now because it is too small for my family. I also managed to buy food for my family and we where able to have a balance meal as a family at USD100 and this brought alot of joy seeing my family eating what they had desired to eat in along time and that was goat's meat, rice and sodas.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Poverty which has brought about poor yields of crops as a result of flash floods which sweeps over the garden and whatever crop is the garden is always destroyed and at the end the harvest is very disappointing. Due to the effects of flash floods it has caused shortage of food in my family hence hunger torturing my family. This is due to lack of other income generating activities a side from farming.
