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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1194 USD)
access_time 2 months ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I believe my livestock will multiply, and birds will also expand in number by next year, and that means I will not lack, but my basic needs will be attended to
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Give directly has done so well, it has empowered me an old to plan fir my present and future through the cash given.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I have spent most of my cash on livestock
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($620 USD)
access_time 5 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
It was noon time and she was very excited with the whole family when they saw the mobile money message
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
She is now able to eat a balanced diet
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
A cow,so as she can get milk
Enrolled
access_time 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
I will buy a calf,some hens and rare so that I can have a source of income to my family.I want to find a way of buying land in a safer place so that I can be safe from landslides.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In September,I was happy because my coffee plants yielded some good coffee.We were able to buy some basic needs for ourselves like food and some medicine.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My greatest challenge is lack of income.We just do casual labour with my husband to earn a living.We now very old that even the energy we have cannot hold us to doing casual labour like we did when we were abit younger.The other big problem is the place we live in now,when it rains ,the water keeps flooding and every night in the rainy season, we are frightened that the landslide will take me and my husband.My husband was diagnosed with Hernia so he cannot even walk long distances and do casual work like then yet there is no money to aid in the medication process . Altogether, we are living here as paupers.The crops in the garden cannot yield much because it has become a water channel especially when it rains.
