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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1239 USD)
access_time 6 months ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Having one of the best saloon in the whole district
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
The unconditional grand has enabled me to realise my dream . All along I have dreaming of th3 saloon business but capital has been a problem
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought some saloon materials and soon going to open up my business soon in one of the nearby trading centre
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($637 USD)
access_time 10 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was very happy
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
Am no longer living with stress
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought a cow
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access_time over 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
If God helps me and i get the transfer, I plan to open up a salon in the nearby trading centre, since I know how to do hair dressing,opening a salon is my first priority, it may cost me 1087 dollars to start and the remaining money 813 dollars I will buy first class clothes for sell.
I am sure if I invest this transfer in these businesses my life will change for good as I have ideas about the businesses I am talking about.
What is the happiest part of your day?
What has brought me joy in the last 6 months is that, I got a cow that I am grazing for someone. I milk it and sell the milk to get some money to take care of my children in the absence of my husband. I get 2 litres of milk daily and sell it at $1.
I am happy my children are healthy, and they rarely fall ill.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
We are living a poor life and poverty is too much,we at times nit able to get food so we end up sleeping on empty stomach and that is the reason why my husband left us here and went to Kenya to work so that we get basic needs and live a better life.
We don't have another land to cultivate so life is hard since I only Base on this land where we live as well to survive.
