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Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($615 USD)
access_time 5 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
The recipient was at home, he felt very happy and he first thought of renting land.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The recipient has rented land for farming and the family is happy.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Renting land.
Enrolled
access_time 8 months ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
I will be able to buy a piece of land, where I will be able to conduct large scale farming crops like maize, Irish, beans for both commercial and home consumption.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I was able to provide the basic needs of my family from Motor cycle riding earnings and I alse harvested onions, which I sold and got $ 53.21 for home use.
Last month I also harvested one sack of maize.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I live in fearing knowing that anytime I will be washed away by the landslide if it rains since it's now a rainy season. This has it ever happened two years back and left a crack in our area.
