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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1282 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?
Hopes to have several income generating sources, like shop cows for milking and selling
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
She thinks Unconditional support to people is good and encourages GD to continue,
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Buying a piece of land
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($635 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 garden digging, I was so happy and stopped digging and left for home. The first thought was to buy a cow
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
There is avery Abig different now in my family,we own a cow and it gives us milk which wasn't there before I got cash from give directly.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Most of was spent on buying a cow
Enrolled
access_time 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
We are planning on buying land in malai although there land is very expensive as it starts from around $1714 to purchase some good piece of land where one can construct and also do some subsistence farming.
We would also love to keep some money so that it can be a starting pint for our son to join University with. He is planning on doing a bachelor's in education specialising in Agriculture at Bustema University.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Nothing particularly, but our son, Wabwire, who is now sitting his senior six exams brought us joy. He has been determined and hearing that he is doing his exams brought us happiness.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Our biggest fear and challenge is water that comes from up hill and hits our house directly. It even destroyed our wall. This happened last year in July.
We also face a challenge of not having enough food to eat especially now that we have a very large family including grand children and yet others are yet to come from school.
Since we do not have enough money, educating all our children is really hard as we always try to send them to schools but lack enough funds.
