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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 want to buy a cow for milking because we are old and we can get what milk to drink for a healthy life
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Everything that GD has done is very good and I don't see anything bad that GD can change and we are so happy
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
We renovated our house because we wanted it to look good and It was going to fall down but now it is in a good condition. It costs us $390. we bought a pig of $60 that will help us to get manure
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
329680 RWF ($298 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
It was in the morning around 7am , I was in the crop land I was planting beans then all of a sudden, I heard my phone ringing because I don't know how to use the phone my son helped to check and found that Givedirectly sent the donation . I was full of joy and smiles on that day. I thanked God for the miracle, It was my first time to receive a grant.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
My life would be miserable , I was able to improve my standards of living in terms of buying a comfortable mattress, food for my family and renovated my house. I thank Givedirectly for the financial support we are now a happy family .
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought metal tiles to replace the old tiles that were on the roof of my house. The total cost was 200k.
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access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
The first installment we plan to renovate our house and put on some cement , we also want buy other materials we need like furnitures, beds , matress, clothes and food to eat. And the balance we want to go to the hospital and see if we can get better treatment.
The second installment we plan to buy a land and the balance we want to save it and use it for the future.
Receiving this money is a chance of living better , we will reach to our development and we will no longer have to worry about paying our hospital bills.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Our cow have recently calved and this has brought us joy because now we will be able to get more fertiliser and our children are having milk to drink and they are growing healthy.
We have recently received solar panel and now we are no longer living in the dark , we no longer have to worry about finding money to buy batteries to use.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
We don't have enough fertiliser to use in our land , to be able to get inorganic fertiliser which is quite expensive we have to work for others to be able to pay for it and sometimes we are not able to get that money and we just use organic fertiliser which doesn't give enough harvest as we want.
Me and my husband cyprien we are always sick we have to go to the hospital most of the times which is not easy for us to pay our bills, we had to sell all our small livestocks to be able to pay for the hospital bills.
