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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
477520 RWF ($426 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I will cultivate that land and It will help me in development as I will buy livestock like a cow after getting profit from my land and that cow will give me manure.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
It reduced our poverty, it have done a lot oand I don't have words to expalin it and Everything was good and It should keep doing that
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought land
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
329680 RWF ($300 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
So happy
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
goat
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
I'm planning to buy small livestocks such as sheep and pig. The sheep cost $50 and pig $50. I will buy those one s for the purpose of saving money, because when I will get short of money in the future, I can sell one just to get money for school stuffs for my grandchild or other unexpected needs. The other thing I will do immediately is to renew the roof of my house, it will cost $200 because I will use metal sheets. I will also by a piec of land just to add on the small one I have in order to have enough land in which I will grow food crops. The land will cost $300.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The thing I can say that has brought me joy is that in December 2022 my cow gave birth, it was really joyful because that cow is paralysed the right side as confirmed by the veterinary, and I was worried that it will never make it because of the disease but finally it gave birth successfully.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The main challenge I'm facing is that I don't have enough land to cultivate so that I can grow food crops,I have a small piece of land and it can't produce enough, I can't rely only on it for feeding me. The other challenge is that there is one part of the roof which is damaged and when it rains, the rain pass through and reach in the house.
