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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
491520 RWF ($434 USD)
access_time 12 months ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I want to be developped because I am planning to renovate my house and I bought land so that I will cultivate coffee as it is one good crops in our area that will give us money in coming days.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
Before I only had a house but now i have got land to cultivate because of GD and I am so thankful for that. Everything that GiveDirectly has done is good I don't see anything bad about it
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought land
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
329680 RWF ($298 USD)
access_time 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 7:30 am and I was planting cassava in the crop land.I was overjoyed and I couldn't stop smiling . The first thing I did was to thank God for the miracle .
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I am living life at its fullest, I was able to buy my own land and I am able to take care of my family in terms of buying them food and I paid the health insurance for them. I will always be grateful for the donation from Givedirectly, my life is becoming better.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I bought a land of 200k , I am planning to plant different crops such as beans and potatoes.
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access_time over 1 year ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
The first instalment plan is to pay for our insurance of $24, and we also plan to renovate our house and buy beds , matress, furniture , clothes, and food for our family.
In the second instalment, we plan to buy land for $400 and the balance we want to save it in Sacco ( Saving and Credit Cooperative) to help us in the future.
Receiving this money means having an amazing opportunity to have a development, we will be able to live better than before and we will have a healthy life because all of our family member will have an insurance and we will no longer worry about what to eat Because we will have our own land for production.
What is the happiest part of your day?
We are very happy that we have received solar panels and this helps us alot , my children used to go to our neighbours who have elecrticity to be able to revise at night but now they sit at home in the evening and they are able to go trough their homeworks and read their books and this makes me very happy. And we have recently received modern stoves from the government which is helping us in our lives , I used to hear a saying of Cana rumwe ( fire one ) and I used to think that it was a myth but now i can testify of it because we no longer use so much firewoods to have our food ready, the amount of woods we used to use in one cooking we are currently using it cooking four times and this is a win for us.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Paying for our insurance is very hard for our family, we have a big family of 7 people and to get money to pay for it is very challenging and up to now one of our family member doesn't have an insurance.
Our house is very small and it rains inside and we can't sit in the living room when it happens.
Our land is very small and to be able to provide for our family we have to rent a land and that makes us do casual labour daily to be able to get the money to pay for the rent. Being able to access enough fertilisers is very expensive. We buy as little as possible to use, and we can't afford to put it in the whole land at once to help us have enough harvest.
