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.
Dorice's family
access_time 5 years ago
Dorice received a $23 twenty-second payment.
"I expect to have a stable business that will give me a good income. The money I get from my business, I am planning to use part of to renovate our house, the roof is leaking because the iron sheets are too old and have holes when it rains we are rained on. This is my biggest dream once I fulfill it, I will be a happy person."
Nicholas's family
access_time 5 years ago
Nicholas received a $23 twenty-second payment.
"In the next six months, I plan to purchase a motorcycle. I have desired to own a motorcycle, one that I can use to do the taxi business. By so doing I will increase the amount of income that I receive monthly besides that I will also become mobile."
Peter's family
access_time 5 years ago
Peter received a $40 fourteenth payment.
"I recently purchased a new motorcycle which I am currently using for a taxi business. I managed to buy the motorcycle by saving the transfers and the little money I earned from my previous job. I have realized that this job is quite profitable, so I am planning to purchase another motorcycle which I will lease out to a friend who may be jobless. I am aware that I am not able to raise the whole amount required for the new motorcycle, so I will save the transfers for a few more months so that I can have anough to pay the deposit before procuring it on credit then use the rest of my transfers and the daily income that will be generated by the leased motorcycle in order to clear the rest of the balance. I want to do this since I endeavour to have a stable source of income and completely change my life so that I do not go back to the kind of life I lived before."
Daisy's family
access_time 5 years ago
Daisy received a $23 twenty-second payment.
"In six months, I will be in attachment learning ways around my career and how to grow into it. I will be close to clearing the first part of my course as I wait to advance as education does not have an end."
Alidah's family
access_time 5 years ago
Alidah received a $23 twenty-third payment.
"I will have joined college."
Queen's family
access_time 5 years ago
Queen received a $526 second payment.
"If I could not have received money from give directly I could not have managed to pay school fee for my grandchildren and for sure they could be still staying at home. I could also not managed to boost my business and I could have closed the business down but I am glad the business is now doing very well."
Akoth's family
access_time 5 years ago
Akoth received a $525 second payment.
"If I could not have received the money from give directly I am very sure I could not have managed to achieve my dream of pursuing a course of teaching. I am now very sure of completing my course. I could also not managed to build a spacious comfortable house as I have done because I do not have any stable source of income."
Erick's family
access_time 5 years ago
Erick received a $525 second payment.
"If I could not have received money from give directly I could not have managed to pay dowry to my spouse and sure she could still be at her biological home together with my children. I could not have managed to invest in sugarcane farming as I did."
Eunice's family
access_time 5 years ago
Eunice received a $526 second payment.
"If I could not have received the transfer I could not have managed to invest in a lager scale farming as i did by hiring tractor to till my land using give directly's money, I could have just used my own hand and till a very small portion. But now I am very happy I have managed to invest in a larger scale farming and sure of getting enough produce."
Helen's family
access_time 5 years ago
Helen received a $526 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now have a stable reliable source of Income. I managed to buy a dairy cow and fortunately it has started producing milk. Of which l sell some milk in our local market and some for my family consumption. Since the milk has started getting me some income, my family has never gone to bed hungry. We are able to at least meet our daily needs. My children too now has a very comfortable place to spend their night as compared to before when they could walk a distance to the neighbour which was very risky and tiresome. I am also at peace because I know they are sleeping in a very secured place where do not need to worry of them being harmed. I am also glad because I have managed to admit my daughter in secondary schools and paid most of her first term school fee with ease."