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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
477520 RWF ($426 USD)
access_time 11 months ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I want to leave my poverty as I have got land i will get food to eat and a pig that I bought will help me to get food and clothes for my children and get other daily household goods that we need
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GD helped us because we were poor and had nothing to live for but after receiving money we have inner peace.we got clothes for our children and food. Everything that GD has done is very good it should keep doing that.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
For LS1 we bought land and for LS2 we bought household goods and Pig because we needed them so much
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
329680 RWF ($300 USD)
access_time 1 year ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
Home,narishimye cyane mpita mbona ko ngiye gutera imbere
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
mbere ntabwo nari kuba nabasha kugura ubutaka nitungo
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Land and pig
Enrolled
access_time 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
We are planning to buy a good land located in good place that can be productive that will cost us $400 and one porc that will cost us$25, this one will give birth to other many which will be sold in return to get money to use for buying food, clothes and pay school fees. We are also planning to buy 2 mattresses that will cost us $100 and clothes. Other money will be spent on household materials like sitting room equipments and kitchen appliances.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I can say that the period of June to December 2022 was the one during which we were happy because we had enough food as we have produced sweet potatoes and beans from our own land, we were able to take two meals per day. But starting this January we are in food crisis as the stock has finished.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The main challenge we are facing is poverty as you can see we don't have enough clothes, we need to be clean in our homes and we don't have money to buy so. We don't have enough food and because of that we take one meal per day. And that is a big one because no one can't work with empty stomach.
