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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1259 USD)
access_time 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Hope to complete the house and concentrate on raring her animals
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GD is good because it delivers what it promises
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
The recipient plans to expand her house and renovate the existing one using this transfer
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($649 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I woke up in the morning and to check on the phone there was a message for mobile money. I felt so happy and immediately thought of buying something out of the money.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I feel so happy because I now have a cow and I have bought iron sheets to make a veranda for my house
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought a cow
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
Receiving this money is an opportunity for me to buy another cow worthy $555 to increase on the milk production for sell so we can have money sustain as a family because I need to invest money into something useful to me, get more onions for planting because it yields more and I am able to sell and pay the bills for my boy in secondary this year.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I planted onions worthy $55, 1kg . And last year when the coffee was ready, I and my children harvested it then later sold it and with so much joy, got $277 which I used to buy a cow worthy $197 since I so much desired to own one for milk production and the balance I used to clear school fees worthy $83 for my son who studies away from home in a boarding school in Form two.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I planted my trees on one acer of land in October 2017, but they were all washed away by land slides that happened in 2018. I and children would get income for sustainability, school fee and food at home,once I sold these trees. But since the incidence happened my financial status got so worse that buying food for my Family is now a challenge since I am a widow.
It is also so hard for me to acquire income to buy maize seeds and onion for me to plant, yet while the trees were around this was not a challenge at all,because I would buy the various seeds I needed whenever I would sold my trees.
