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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.
Movine's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Movine received a $22 twelfth payment.
"I expect to have put up my home and build a decent iron roofed house. I feel good having my own hope because it is great progress and it gives someone a lot of confidence when interacting with other people in the village."
Collins's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Collins received a $22 twelfth payment.
"I have a plan for opening another barber shop because I have more customer. I know it will do well hence increase in my daily income. The daily sales I receive from it will enable me to buy more goat for rearing. I will be in a position to achieve my dream of buying a dairy cow once I have enough number of goats to sell and buy my dream dairy cow."
Collince's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Collince received a $49 eighth payment.
"I have been living in Nairobi since I was born, but my mother permanently relocated back to our native home a few months back. Now that she is back at home, I want to build a house of my own there so that whenever I visit her, I will have somewhere to sleep and privacy. I have plans of saving some of these transfers so that I can be able to buy the required materials to build the house before this project ends."
Topius's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Topius received a $22 twelfth payment.
"Being a student, it has really been hard for me to concentrate on other investments at home. Now that I am in the fourth form of my studies which is the final year in secondary school, I expect to increase my concentration of farm production and hopefully, I would be harvesting my first produce soon after. A venture in agriculture is very productive though it is tedious for my case, I will be operating on a small scale which does not require a lot of labor."
Moses's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Moses received a $22 sixteenth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months because I will have fenced my home. This will solve many issues that we are currently facing. I will finally be at peace with my neighbors and the peaceful coexistence means will be able to grow and develop each other in a different way. I also believe that my harvest will increase because they will not have been interfered with by the cattle from the neighborhood."
Esther's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Esther enrolled.
"My job is contractual and there are some instances that I spend almost three months without any income. I have always wanted to have an alternative plan that can supplement my income. This has triggered my desire to own Galla goats which are very productive and are a good source of income. I will therefore purchase them with this transfer and this will see my financial status rising to a better position. I will also fix permanent windows to my house and replace the cardboard which is not safe because of strong winds. "
Riziki's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Riziki enrolled.
"The death of my husband came as a big blow to my family. Raising six children singlehandedly has never been easy because I do not have a stable job. To sustain them, I burn charcoal which earns me a maximum of 700 shillings a month. This saw five of them missing education and only one managed to complete secondary school."
Rose's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Rose received a $45 eighth payment.
"I expect to have a long term goal of expanding my business so that I can generate more profits each and every week. Right now the business is so small and it has not yet picked quite well because I am still new in it, though I am sure that I will be able to make improvements and adjustments as time goes by especially with help and support from my mother. God willing I will venture into the business of selling fish which I think is such a lucrative business and can generate a lot of money."
Susan's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Susan received a $49 eighth payment.
"Currently, I'm employed but the income I earn from it isn't enough to meet my needs and at the same time, whatever I earn from that place doesn't match the time consumed the current employer consumes. I, therefore need to start up a business so that I quit the current job. In order to achieve this, I have been saving part of the transfers including the recent transfer so that I can use it in the future to start up a cereal business. In addition to that, I owed a friend some money so I used part of the recent to pay for the loan and bought food with a portion of the money."
Brenda's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Brenda received a $22 sixteenth payment.
"I expect my life to have changed in the six months because I will have started a shop business. I will be dealing in second-hand clothes. From this business, I will be making money and my heifer will be mature and producing milk. I expect to have increased my milk production and egg production."