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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1187 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?
To finish completing a house and concentrate on farming
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GD does well by ensuring transfers reach the recipient
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Recipient has constructed a house
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($613 USD)
access_time 4 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
The cash message got me and I got so excited, my first thought was to buy fish and indeed I enjoyed it.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
There is a big difference now in my family, we do have a balanced diet at home which we didn't have before.
We enough food and we can ablely have three meals a day.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have used most of it construct a house
Enrolled
access_time over 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
We intend to buy a piece at 5m ,do farming and get some profit , to plant cabbage n onions buy a half to rare n get some milk.
What is the happiest part of your day?
We able to harvest our beans , able to get sauce for the family and some seeds for next season of planting
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
When heavy rains come it gets to cold in house, we get worried that landslides may happen any time, it affects our crops
