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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
477520 RWF ($415 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?
We are 3 Children and we live alone at home and I am the older one among those 3 children. I am 18 years old, And my Siblings one is 15 years old another one is 13 years old. Me and my siblings we hope to study and finish our studies so that we can get Jobs and live a happy life. My sister who is 15 years old lived in the city and she is a housemaid because she was working to support our family but she is planning to come back home and get back to school.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
It helped us a lot because we have got a good house and now we are happy. Everything that GD has done is good
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
We renovated our house for $200 because it was ald and was about to fall down, we bought food and clothes $100 that we needed with my siblings and we saved $100 for school fees for our better future
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
The first instalment we plan to renovate our house and we plan to pay for our school fees and be able to go to school me and my sisters. We also plan to buy clothes and food to eat.
The second installment we plan to buy a land for $300 and we want to build a kitchen outside our house and buy livestocks, we want to buy a goat $30 , 5 chickens for $15 and 4 rabbits for $20 and the balance we want to save it.
Receiving this money means living better , it will help us have an education and be able to have a meaningful future. We will be able to reach our development which we couldn’t have achieved without this money.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Being able to get an education is my greatest happiness, all of us are not able to go school because we don't have money but being the one who is studying gives me Joy and it gives me courage to perform well and put in all my efforts to be able to help my sisters as well.
We have been able to benefit from the government support program that helps underprivileged families, and this helps us in our daily lives and gives us an opportunity to have food and be able to provide for other basic needs.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
We have been orphaned since our young age me and my two sisters, our mother passed away since I was 2 years old and it's been many years since we have been living alone because our father left us when our mother died and we never knew him growing up. we are not able to work and be able to sustain our lives , we have sought support from the government and other relatives to be able to survive.
My young sister Francoise was not able to continue her studies because we are not capable of paying for our school fees and my twin sister Donatha had to drop out and went to another sector to work for some money to help me go to school.
