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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
477520 RWF ($421 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?
I hope that in the coming year our agriculture Harvests will be increased and got the sufficient food for the whole family and probably sell the rests in order to get money.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
All activities of Givedirectly are good especially for developing us. So keep it up all are going well
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent my most recent transfer Livestock (buying a cow) and buying land.
I do that because in our family we live by agriculture especially growing of crops so that I bought a land for cultivating and cow will facilitate us on with fertiliser.
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
The first installment we plan to renovate our house , we want to put on cement on the outside and clean on the inside and we also want to buy house materials like furnitures, beds , matress we will also buy clothes and food to eat.
The second installment we plan to buy livestocks, we want to buy a cow for $300 , a pig for $40 and 5 chickens for $11 and the balance we plan to save it.
Receiving this money will brings us Joy, it is a chance that we are getting to come out of poverty . We will be able to have a brighter future and we will live better than we are currently living.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Being alive and having food to eat is what brings us joy , it is not every day that we are able to get what to eat but in these past months we have been fortunate to have food on our table. And we are happy that our children are helping us , working for money to use in our daily expenses.
Recently we have received solar panels and they are helping us alot , now we are walking in a light place and we no longer live in the dark.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
We don't have a place to work in , we have a small land and to be able to get food to eat we have to rent from others and additionally we have to work for others to be able to gain some money to use.
We currently don't have our own livestocks, to be able to get fertiliser we have to herd from others because we don't have any capacity to buy our own and we don't have money to buy inorganic fertiliser which is quite expensive.
Our children are not able to get every materials they need because we can't afford it , for instance we have not paid for any of their school fees , they go to school every day fearing that they will be chased out and this is our main inconvenience.
