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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?
Ibyishimo
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Abana nta uniform nibikoresho byishuri, ubu mfite na mutuelle kdi nabana baza bona amata
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Cow kuko nari nkeneye ibishyingwe n'amata
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
The first thing we are planning to do is to buy our own cow that will cost us $300 as the one we have will be returned the owner. The second thing is that we will buy land to cultivate that will cost us $200 and the rest will cover health insurance and other household needs. We will also renew our house by putting cement so that it can have a good looking.
What is the happiest part of your day?
There is nothing special happened to us that I can say that has brought joy to us, but I can say the period from September to October 2022 when we had our beans productivity, during that period we have stopped to go cultivating for others because the food items were available and affordable, we weren't worried about the food.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The main challenge we are facing is poverty as it is hard for us to find something to eat. The reason why I am mentioning poverty is that , compared to other neigbors some have cows and big land to cultivate but for us we even sometimes go to cultivate for others in order to get the food. You can also tell by looking the state in which our house is. We have small land and we cannot rely on it's produce, it requires us to rent the land when we have money to pay for, if not we cultivate that one only and continue to cultivate for others. We don't have our own cow except the one we are raising for the neigbor.
