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Hellen's family
Hellen
landscapeCountry:
uganda
workOccupation:
Subsistence farming
faceAge:
33
workCampaign
Standard Uganda
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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
1660965 UGX ($447 USD)
access_time 5 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
My life is different than it would have been because I have built a house, and sleep with a mattress on a bed. Before, I used to share a small spaced house with all the children, sleep on the floor where by rats were an inconvenience at night.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly has done well giving so many people money to enable them build iron sheet roofed houses and acquire bulls to be used to plough gardens. There's nothing it hasn't done well in my opinion.
What did you spend your second transfer on?
My second transfer was spent to building materials such as cement, bricks, iron sheets, doors, windows to build an iron sheet roofed house, and the rest on feeding.
 
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
1728300 UGX ($471 USD)
access_time 5 years ago
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Describe the biggest difference in your daily life.
My standards of living has improved from the time I received this transfer from Give Directly. I never had a bull and Rats used to disturb me in the night because I was sleeping on the floor but I bought a bed and mattress therefore no rat nightmares. I'm also laying brick and very soon I will start building a house and I will no long suffer from looking for grass to maintain the house year in year out.
Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
we had excess joy and happiness as a whole family because we received assistance from Give Directly. We laughed, danced and Ululated Thanking the Donors for financial support. I started having many plans running in my mind on how I will spend this transfer before I even discussed it my spouse and whatever I thought rimed with my spouse's thought as well.
What did you spend your first transfer on?
First of all I have been having challenges during farming seasons and when I received this token transfer I decided to buy a bull at Ugx 900000 that will help me during cultivation period. I had also mortgaged my land for paying school fees and I had lost a dear one and there was need for burial arrangements and I needed money urgently so I used that land as collateral security which cleared at Ugx 300000. I also bought household items like bed, mattress and Radio at ugx 210000. I hired people to lay for me bricks for building a house and it took ugx 290000 for labor and feeding the workers.
 
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What does receiving this money mean to you?
Receiving this money means i will build a house and also buy some cattle for ploughing.
What is the happiest part of your day?
My happiest part of the day is in afternoon while sharing with my friends and family.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest hardship in my life is lack of enough support for sustaining my family welfare couppled with un controlled pregnancies.