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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1277 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?
I hope to be a very stable person together with my family ,no debts, and hence peace of mind and health thinking
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
According to me ,give directly is the best in its process that are geared towards supporting the vulnerable and I submit to same used in my village to be used elsewhere. Their employees are the best
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent most of it on clearing the piece of land that my brother inlaw had given me and was always on my case to clear him .
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($633 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 in the garden, when I saw The message and Immediately called my daughter to check and confirm. I felt so good In life that I can't even explain.. the happiness was too much. The thing in my heart was to buy a cow for milk and paying fees for my children.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
There is avery big difference now in my life and family as a whole..we are now debt free and we also have some food in stock which we didn't have before cash came In
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Buying livestock and paying school fees for my children
Enrolled
access_time 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
If we get a cash transfer I hope to buy a plot, and construct to shift my family to safer place.
We also hope to buy to get another cow to increase on the milk production so we can sell the milk.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What brings me Joy is my cow is able to give my family milk, I sometimes sell my chicken and get money for survival .
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest challenges is when i t heavy rains , I get worried that the land might cover our house anytime. I live in fear, the rain washed my garden which was in makunda village , it had cassava, banana and coffee plantations , so right now we struggle to get what to eat.
We also neighbour Nakokolo River everything it rains it gets full and it floods.
