We check in with people at each stage of the cash transfer process to see how things are going. Take a look at some of their stories as they appear here in real-time.
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was at home when I received the message, I was so happy because I had never received that amount of money or help.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I have never had such help nor amount of money, life has been hard with my mother's illness but now I paid my children's school fees, my mother's medical care and life has improved a bit.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I paid my children's school fees, gifted my husband and sent some for my mother's medical care because she's very sick.
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access_time over 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
I want to buy a plot and we construct our own house because this one we are staying in right is not ours. It's for my brother in law who is staying in Kampala now with his family.
What is the happiest part of your day?
My husband used to take care of us and I was happy with that because he could even buy clothes for my children. But since June the care stopped and everything ended all of a sudden.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My husband left me and is no longer taking care of us yet the children need to eat and go to school.Since June he has not provided anything for us. All he says on phone is he stopped working.
