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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1254 USD)
access_time 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I want to have been able to build a house
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GD was able to fulfill its promise.
I'm not aware of anything since the promise was fulfilled and we hope you do it again.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought land so that I can relocate.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($639 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 town doing some business, I saw the money and was very happy about it, I thought about the land I had wanted to buy and immediately went and paid part of the price for the land.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I have now bought land and whenever I see it I feel happy heart with my family. I almost lost my family in a landslide but now I have hope of relocating and I feed my family on time.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought land, and paid my children's school fees.
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
Receiving this money means that Give Directly really cares about my safety. I plan on buying a plot of land in an area that is safe from landslides like in Bududa town at an amount of $1639, I will also buy building materials at $164. I will use $328 to buy a cow as a future asset as I know in the end it will provide milk and calves that I will sale and profits gained buy more land.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I haven't had happiness, due to poverty I ended up renting in a nearby place where the landslides occurred. I did so because I don't have land, the houses are cheaper and they are the only ones I can afford to pay
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Landslides in that whenever it rains it leads to flash floods that ends up carrying away cattle and plants belonging to my neighbours, additionally I vividly remember like it was yesterday a landslide carried my house and almost claimed the lives of my loved ones leaving behind stones thus failed me to reconstruct a new home since I owned only one piece of land.
