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.
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Chepkemoi's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Chepkemoi received a $22 sixteenth payment.
"In the next six months, I would have bought a cow. I am planning to buy a cow that is already producing milk from my relative in another village. I feel it is the safest way to do this business because I am buying from someone I know and trust and I have hopes of getting the profits immediately because I have a ready market and the cow is already producing milk. This will improve my life greatly because it will relieve me from the daily expenditure is of buying milk. The profits will also help me meet my other goals"
Irene's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Irene enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I am facing is little money for running my home. I so much depend on agriculture amd a small drug shop at Ocorner trading centre. What I get in return can not allow me build, educate my children as well as meeting all the families basic needs."
Abubakar's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Abubakar enrolled.
"Receiving this money means timely payment of my children's school fees and completing plastering work in my house. I currently have a problem of paying school fees for my children and some times they are sent home for to non payment. The house I stay in is some times cold because of te gaps left in the wall which makes my children some times sickly."
Martha's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Martha enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I am facing is limited land for agriculture. We just have one acre of land that can not sustain us. If I had more land, I would cultivate a lot of crops where some would be for home consumption while the balance would be sold to help get other needs."
Aishar's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Aishar enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is lack of a reliable source of income for treatment and daily upkeep. Most of the time, I do casual labour in order to acquire the necessary items needed by the household."
Ben's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Ben enrolled.
"The biggest hardship in my life is lack of a reliable source of income. I only rely on farming in order to sustain the family. Some times, farming is faced with external shocks like drought which leaves you with no other source of income."
Grace's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Grace enrolled.
"Receiving this money means building and sleeping in a better iron roofed house that is specious and durable enough. The house I live in currently is leaking and it is expensive to repair because finding grass for thatching it is difficult."
Kimeto's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Kimeto received a $22 sixteenth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I shall have started rearing chicken which I will use my two subsequent transfers to build a chicken coop and buying a few chicken for the start. In addition to this, I am planning to use the money I will get after selling my french beans to buy a dairy cow. Dairy farming has always been my dream and hopefully, before the end of this year, I foresee myself starting it up. Having the two projects running smoothly has always been my dream to serve as my alternative sources of income."
Florence's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Florence received a $22 fifteenth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months because from the sales I will have saved enough money to build a kitchen. I badly want to build this kitchen because my children are first approaching the adolescent stage and I don't have an extra room to accommodate them. The kitchen will also come in handy with storing my harvest in the next season. I will also be able to comfortably cook even during the reason seasons without messing my household items with soot."
Joyce's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Joyce received a $22 sixteenth payment.
"The business I am planning to start now will be operational in the next six months. This will have sorted the school fees issues and other bills in our household. I have a lot of hopes in it that it will work well for me and makes other projects easy to run too."