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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almost 6 years ago
Elice
received a $23 twelfth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I am planning to buy a dairy cow to reduce the cost of buying milk. Currently, I am buying milk and its so costly for me."
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almost 6 years ago
Sammy
received a $23 twelfth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have completed building a bricks house. My family will have a good house to sleep and reduce the tedious work of smearing a mud house like what they are doing now."
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almost 6 years ago
Luisa
received a $23 twelfth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six month in that I will have started a new business of selling second hands clothes. This business will earn me some income to also pay school fees and even expand my poultry keeping project."
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almost 6 years ago
Edward
received a $200 initial payment.
"I spent my transfers to purchase a bed and a mattress that I lacked in my house, and also to repay a debt of 2000 KES that I had borrowed from my youth group. I used to sleep on the floor as I had never owned a bed or a mattress. I cleared high school last year but one in the year 2017. I have been surviving on construction jobs and selling water for my youth group project. What I make from these jobs is only enough to cater for my meals and my rent. At times I fail to get these jobs. I am grateful to Give Directly that I was able to make my life better. Now I have a comfortable bed and mattress."
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almost 6 years ago
John
received a $470 initial payment.
"The biggest change in my life is I no long have to buy grass for thatching the house because I have built a iron roofed house. I have also managed to take my children to school since I did not have enough money to pay their fees."
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almost 6 years ago
Bii
received a $23 twelfth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have bought a dairy cow and cut the cost of buying milk. I will be able to save some money to pay for school for my children in school and even to expand my existing business of poultry keeping."
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almost 6 years ago
Adija
received a $470 initial payment.
"I felt so happy that time because I used to over think how my children will go back to school since I did not have enough money to cater for their tuition. When I was diagnosed with illness, I sold almost everything in the household to seek medical attention and I did not have anything to sale in order to pay school fees. Immediately I saw a mobile money notification I realized that my children could now go back to school."
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almost 6 years ago
Vincent
received a $23 twelfth payment.
"As per the great plans, I have at the moment, I have great hopes that by the end of six months I would have accomplished most of my goals, among them being the vegetable project which will guide me to purchasing a piece of land. My expectation in the next six months is to have fully purchased that piece of land and I will only be left with the construction work."
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almost 6 years ago
Grace
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different than it would have been if I had not got transfer in that I am now out of danger as I managed to get proper treatment on my uterus illness."
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almost 6 years ago
Jennifer
received a $470 initial payment.
"The money entered my phone at around 2:00 am in the morning and I was wondering who could have sent me a message. When I opened the message I saw ugx 1700000 and I felt so happy and said God bless the Muzungu meaning white man who endeavored to support me. I thanked God so much because this money came at the right moment my daughter was supposed to go back to school and it was exactly what the school needed for the second semester."
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