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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
491520 RWF ($440 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?
before i used to work for others to get what to eat. but now i will be working in my own garden. before i would earn 30000frw per month but now i will be getting 40,000frw after getting what to eat.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
giving us unconditional money was a blessing and we really appreciated.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought a land of 450000frw because i had no where to work from since the most activity carried out in the village is agrculture. owning a land was a great achievement.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
329680 RWF ($302 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 home with my family when I received my first transfer. My husband and I were so happy because we were living in extreme poverty and we could see better days ahead. My faily and I were very hungry, we withdrew the whole transfer the same day and bought food, clothes and a cow all thanks to GD
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I lived in extreme poverty before receiving my first GD transfer. I used to rent a land where I grew crops for a living. That was my only source of income and food which was sometimes not reliable. Everything changed when I received the first transfer transfer as I was able to buy food and planning to buy my own land. With my GD transfer, I am able to think other sources of income to sustain my family in the future.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent most of my transfer on a cow. This cow will allow me to get manure and milk for my kiids and I
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access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
The first installment we plan to invest in our business, we want to buy shoe making machine and put in our business and we also want to rent a land to cultivate while raising enough money to buy our own.
The second installment we want to renovate our house , buy materials for our house , clothes and food to eat and the balance we want to save for our future and the future of our children.
Receiving this money is a great opportunity it will help us have the capital we have always wanted and we will be able to generate income from it and we will have a good future and be able to support others as well who are living in poverty as we do.
What is the happiest part of your day?
My husband Vianney started creating made in Rwanda sandals and shoes and we are starting to generate income from that business, and the profit help us to pay for our medical insurance, have food to eat without begging or seeking support and this makes our family very happy and thankful.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Not being able to get capital is the main challenge we are currently facing because when we approach banks and cooperatives they give us a few days for repayment, my husband vianney asked for a loan of $100 and when he got apporoval to get it they immediately deducted their interest and he received $81 which had to be paid in a period of one year installments for every 3 months. When we received that amount we started a business of raising livestocks , we bought 3 goats which we had to sell every 3 months to be able to pay out the loan and in actual reality we faced loses and penalties , we didn't operate as we expected because much pressure was on getting money to pay back without even gaining any profit and later on some programs that helps small businesses and pay back after getting profits come in our village but they required mortgage which we don't possess and therefore having a capital to start a business is our main challenge.
Infrastructure in our village is another challenge because we don't have access to roads, electricity and water which doesn't allow us to work properly or even get enough income from our activities.
Getting fertiliser to use is still a challenge, to use either Organic and inorganic is very expensive. to get inorganic requires money and we don't have livestock to get the organic fertiliser.
