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. Learn more about how recipients opt in to share their stories.
Martha's family
access_time over 2 years ago
Martha enrolled.
"My spouse and my oldest son were the once making farm for my family and supporting us all. Right now, I am an widow, my oldest son has also passed and I don't have strength enough to make farm or create another means to raise money for the up keep of my family. Those are the major challenges I'm currently facing."
Cooper's family
access_time over 2 years ago
Cooper enrolled.
"Lack of finance remains our major hardship as a family. As a family head whose only income is substance farming it's not easy to adequately provide for my family. About a decade ago, I planned to build a house but it has yielded unsuccessfully due to the funds generation. I have been living in this mud thatch house for over ten years now. I am thankful to GiveDirectly that their presence will make me to build a house for myself."
John's family
access_time over 2 years ago
John enrolled.
"I am John Toe. A 25 year-old man and the only male child of my parent. I will build my house and continue my education if I received the cash transfer from GiveDirectly. I am a fifth grade dropped-out who still have the desire to continue my schooling. I have my own family now but it has not been my plan. When I dropped from school and decided to establish a cocoa plantation, I needed some one to help me that's why I engaged in to early marriage. I dropped from school and now focusing on cocoa plantation due to the lack of support. Now that I had a spouse, I want to build a house and go back to school."
Esther's family
access_time over 2 years ago
Esther enrolled.
"Finance is my major hardship we are facing presently. My husband is not educated likewise myself. We have a polygamous family with many children. Our husband has become very older that he is unable to do any thing to now to substain us. We make farm to substain the children but we don't have the means to send them to school. There is no plantation or other sources of income tat could support us."
Susannah's family
access_time over 2 years ago
Susannah enrolled.
"As a single parent, I am paying rent in the house I am living in currently. The little money I make from the farming am engaging in is not sufficient to build a house of my own. With this in mind, if I am qualified to receive the cash transfer, I will build my own house which will help me be free from the burden of paying house rent."
John's family
access_time over 2 years ago
John enrolled.
"I will purchase 3 dozens of zinc, pay for 3500 dirt bricks and other materials for the construction of a three bedroom house and invest into my cocoa farm if I received the cash transfer from GiveDirectly. I am a soncondary school dropped-out and a fisherman. Only fishing activity and substance farming I do to substain my family. In order to have a decent dwelling place as a result of GiveDirectly intervention , I will use $ 100,000 to gather all the needed materials for the construction projects while I use the balance $ 50,000 to improve my cocoa plantation."
Patience's family
access_time over 2 years ago
Patience enrolled.
"My family survives through subsistence farming. As such, the farm we made this year has been destroyed by animals. This condition has caused us the challenge of having no food for the subsistence of the family."
Anthony's family
access_time over 2 years ago
Anthony enrolled.
"Due to my health condition, no woman wants to marry me, as such, I am living single and taking care of of my old mother through the means of subsistence farming. The farm I make doesn't yield much so I can sell some of the products to raise money. If I am qualified to receive the cash transfer, I will use all of it to build a new house for my mother and"
Winston's family
access_time over 2 years ago
Winston enrolled.
"If I get the money, I will want to build my house and zinc it very well. My family and I are suffering and we are even embarrassed when family people come to us. Nowhere to sleep and the condition of our sleeping place is worse."
Solomon's family
access_time over 2 years ago
Solomon enrolled.
"I planned on using the cash that will be transferred by Givedirectly to go back to school and to also help my only child obtain a better Education. I dropped out of the 7th-grade class for three years and have just been doing small farming to sustain myself. I can't be overly happy about this opportunity and hope this blessing can come through."