GDLive Newsfeed
We check in with people at each stage of the cash transfer process to see how things are going. Take a look at some of their stories as they appear here in real-time.
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over 8 years ago
Nancy
received a $99 initial payment.
"l am planning to start secondhand clothes business and to buy furniture."
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over 8 years ago
Mary
received a $99 initial payment.
"l am planning to build a more comfortable, spacious house because l am leaving in a very small house."
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over 8 years ago
Maurine
received a $99 initial payment.
"We (recipient and spouse) plan to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on an initial deposit for a motor bike."
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over 8 years ago
Charles
received a $99 initial payment.
"I am planning to buy another bull and also buy other farm implements to enable me to do large acreage ."
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over 8 years ago
Hellen
received a $99 initial payment.
"I am planning to construct a house as the one am living in is old and dilapidated with a leaking roof and buy some goats and poultry."
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over 8 years ago
Teresa
received a $99 initial payment.
"I am planning to enlarge my house and also buy cement to do plastering of the walls and the floor, buy some livestock and also continue paying school fees."
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over 8 years ago
Awino
received a $99 initial payment.
"We are planning with my husband that he can use part of the money to pay my dowry and use the remainder to buy M-Kopa solar lamp."
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over 8 years ago
Evaline
received a $99 initial payment.
"I am planning to buy more iron sheets and other construction materials so that I can build a house."
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over 8 years ago
Grace
received a $99 initial payment.
"I am planning to buy cement and repair the walls of my house, complete paying school fees and also buy a cow."
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over 8 years ago
Benter
received a $99 initial payment.
"I plan to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on house construction and buying small livestock"
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