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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
477520 RWF ($419 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Inkunga yambere ya GiveDirectly ingeraho yasanze mfite icyifuzo cyo kugira itungo ryo korora, mpita ngura ingurube ya 60,000 Rwf (60$), ndangije mpita nshaka no kuryama heza ngura matelas ya 28,000 Rwf (28$) nicyo kwiyorosa (bed cover) ya 8,000 Rwf (8$),nanaguze imyambaro nibyo kurya bintwara 20,000 Rwf (20$); ayasigaye nongereyeho ayandi ngura umurima wa 270,000 Rwf (270$). Inkunga ya kabiri nayo yaraje mpita nshakira isambu umwana wanjye mugurira umudugudu wa 250,000 Rwf (250$), nanongeye ngura ingurube ya 70,000 Rwf (70$), nanaguze urugi rwo gukinga inzu yanjye runtwara 13,000 Rwf (13$), ngura n'imirasire ya 45,000 Rwf, ubu asigaye ndi guhahamo ibyo kurya.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly yakoze mu mucyo mbasha kubona inkunga nari naremerewe, none uwari udafite itungo, udafite umurima ubu mfite ingurube, mfite umurima! Yewe ntanubwo nkikiba mu kizima, byose mbikesha GiveDirectly! Icyo numva yazakora neza kurusha ubutaha ni uko yakongera ibyiciro itangamo inkunga ntibibe ari bitatu gusa.
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Ndifuza ko mu myaka iri mbere aho guhinga nzaba narahongereye, amatungo yanjye yarorotse ampa ifumbire nkabona umusaruro ukomeye nkazajya nihaza mu bindi bikenewe mu buzima bwa buri munsi.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
329680 RWF ($300 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Upon receiving my first transfer, I bought a pig worth 50 $, a piece of land for 200 $, a mattress, a bed cover, food and some clothes. I spent most of my transfer into purchasing a piece of land spacious enough for me to grow enough crops to consume and spare some to sell on the market.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
There is a big difference between before the transfer and after the transfer. I was living in extreme poverty and hardly was able to buy some food or clothes. I am now able to buy some food, utensils and clothes for my child and I. The thing I had always dreamed of aving was having my very own land and sleeping on a mattress. I was able to achieve all that through GD's first transfer and I can not wait for the second transfer
Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was home with my child and he was the one to notice I had received my first transfer. I so thrilled to receive my first transfer. I bought a piece of land that I had always wanted to buy, a pig and some food and clothes. Buying some land is a very bigv accomplishment and something I had very hard prayed for. I thank GiveDirectly for everything.
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access_time over 1 year ago
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The main challenge I am facing is loneliness, living alone at home is a challenge as I told you my wife left me 6 years ago and she went with my last born. we have 5 children and 4 others are adults now they went looking for jobs in other places like Kigali and Kayonza. The other challenge is that I don't have any livestock at home and because of that it's not easy for me to get manure that I can use in my agricultural activities, hence the low production which results in having insufficient food at home. In our region it's not possible to grow crops without using manure and expect production. It's impossible, whether being sweet potatoes,beans or other crops can not grow without manure.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Nothing special happened in the last 6 months but I can say that when I have food at home I feel happy because I am assured that I will not go to sleep with an empty stomach.
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
The first thing I'm planning to do is to buy a pig that will help me to get manure and it will cost $100. The other is to renovate my house as you can see it has no doors for rooms and cover it with sand and cement. Those activities will cost $200. In addition,I will buy a cow that will help me in the future, because when you have a cow you have money, you can meet an emergency that needs money and sell the cow without forgetting that it will hep me to get manure also. The cow will cost $200. The rest of money will be spent on household needs like mattress and food stuffs.
