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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1201 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?
I hope to expand my agricultural harvest, and it will help me educate my children
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
I thank givedirectly for helping us directly. It's better than all the organisations that help people who are affected by disaster . I recommend the same process elsewhere.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent most of it on livestock and paying for a piece of land
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($615 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 at home and I felt so happy together with my madam. The first thought was to buy land,
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
There's a big difference now, I am stable now without stress, am o
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have spent most of the money on acquiring a piece of land in a safer place
Enrolled
access_time over 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
Am planning on buying land down slope where I can restart off my life and not be able to go to Kenya to still work as a labourer there. I have not yet found a place to buy yet but will start looking for one immediately I recieve the money.
Am also planning on spending about $416 on purchasing a cow that can produce milk and also be my security incase I will be needing money, I can easily se it off.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I was happy when I managed to pay the debt of $277 which they had demanded me for about a year. The police trace dog came and sat at my door and the people in the village thought I was the one that had stolen a bunch of matooke from the neighbours garden and yet I was not even around. They made me pay $277 and I was happy that I finally paid in July.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Am always worried about water that comes from up uphill, the water can be very fast and destroys our crops. We are always living in fear especially when it's the rainy season around August September even in March. The desire to move away from these areas forced me Andy wife to to go to Kenya and start working there so that we can be able to get money to enable us to move to other safer areas.
