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Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
329680 RWF ($295 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 at home and I felt so much . I couldn't believe that I received the donation. The first thing that came in my mind is that my life was going to change in a better way.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
My life has completely changed because of the money I received from Givedirectly I bought livestocks and clothes for myself.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought livestocks a big pig and goats because I want to rear them that was my plan.
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access_time over 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
The first installment i plan to put cement inside my house floor and i want to renovate the roof because it rains inside and I also plan to buy livestocks, i want to buy a goat for $60 and a pig for $150 to give me fertilisers.
The second installment i plan to buy a land that i have desired for a while, that land is big and it even have a smallest forest that can help me get income from it.
Receiving this money is a happy opportunity and it will help me get everything that i couldn't afford on my own and be able to have a good development.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Having my children all Married and all having a good life is what brings me happiness and my young daughter Vestine who got married last has been able to concive recently , i couldn't have asked a better miracle than that.
Being able to work for myself and having a living on my own without seeking help from others gives a meaning to my life and it gives me energy to keep pushing further.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I currently own a small business of selling banana juice and the challenge i face is falling into loses, there are times when i bought bananas and tried to produce juice and it become defected and I couldn't get people to purchase from me and this has happened to me for several times where i had to throw it all and fell into loses.
