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Wanabya's family
Wanabya
landscapeCountry:
uganda
workOccupation:
Subsistence farming
faceAge:
45
workCampaign
Uganda Disaster Response
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Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($618 USD)
access_time 5 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
Was building a kitchen at home, felt very happy, First thought of buying saloon materials,he had wanted to open a saloon, but financial constraints blocked him
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Was stuck in life, now operating a saloon in bubita Town Council
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Buying saloon materials, finishing his kitchen, plans to build a kraal
 
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access_time over 1 year ago
 
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
Right now I feel tided up, but plan to develope my saloon and enlarge my chapati business. Also be able to get land 4. Millom because things are up
What is the happiest part of your day?
Being alive, and fallen sick
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Very many challenges. 1. My broke my leg in 2006,sought medication and healed though when I walk long distances and carrying of any heavy thing I feel some pain in bone. 2.I was born alone as child in my family and so sad the both my parents died. My father was from a drinking place and was attacked, killed. We found him laying after two days we discovered where he was but dead in 2021. My mother's dead just happened tregredly on 2014.