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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1181 USD)
access_time 2 months ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I am looking forward to having a household that is financially stable
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Cash intervation is the best because it helped me realise my dreams
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought a very huge cow at 2500000 and now I am even enjoying the milk
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($616 USD)
access_time 5 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
Was digging, knelt down, and thanked God for enabling GD ,left digging
Thought of buying cattle and buy land after
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Used to have bad thoughts but now have no bad thoughts
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Planning to buy a cow, a safer place for living, and fees for the son who is joining senior 4
Enrolled
access_time 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
With this cash transfer, I plan to buy a cow at £270 which will provide us with milk for daily consumption and also selling to meet basic needs. I also plan to grow cabbage which will cost me £270 and this will help me to raise school fees for my children and take them to good schools to sharpen their future.
Another thing opt to go in for is buying a bull worth £540 which will support us in raising money for a good business that will enable us improve on daily income. I will also use £540 to start up a poultry farm for my two sons so that can also developing themselves and start living independently.
Then the balance of £270 will cater for feeding as we plan to improve on income as time goes on in order to live without stress for some time.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What made me with my family members happy is GOD giving us life and keeping us without sicknesses. Something that enabled us to work hard and raise money for basic needs in the home.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
We currently face the problem of flash floods and land slides which has always affected our gardens of food crops and cash crops like coffee and bananas leaving us with food insecurity and poverty in the way that we can not afford paying school fees for our children in good schools hence having poor performance always in class.
