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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
1662250 UGX ($453 USD)
access_time over 4 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
My life is better because I acquired a radio for entertaining our customers. My wife's local brew bar is now booming and as a result we are able to provide basic needs for the family. I'm also sleeping in plastered house. In the past, I slept in unplastered floor which affected my health like I could consecutively suffered from cough and flu.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion, GiveDirectly has done well by giving me money for plastering my permanent house and buying a cow.GiveDirectly has not done anything wrong.
What did you spend your second transfer on?
I bought building materials( 10 bags of cement, 1 trip of bricks, 1 trip of sand), a radio, paid labour
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
1730250 UGX ($468 USD)
access_time almost 5 years ago
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The recipient was not asked any questions as part of this follow up.
Enrolled
access_time almost 5 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Receiving this money means that I will own a cow for milk production. I am now old, I need to take milk but it's expensive to buy on daily basis. I will take milk In order to improve on my health.
What is the happiest part of your day?
I am always happy in the morning when I have woken up healthy and able to go out to my garden to work. Happiness comes because I am able to support my spouse work on a bigger portion of land such that we have food in our household.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest hardship I face sleeping in an incomplete permenent house. My house lacks a fair floor, it's dusty and the wall I not plastered which affects my health with frequent cough and being sickly.
